Harun Farocki was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. He made over 90 films, the vast majority of them short experimental documentaries.

KNOWN FOR

Kulturplatz
2008
Grimme Award
1995
Phoenix
2014
Barbara
2012
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
2026
Class Relations
1984
Ghosts
2005
About Narration
2025
Übertragung
2007
3000 Houses
1967
Cinématon
1978
In Comparison
2009

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
43
Directing
96
Writing
58
Producing
14
Camera
2
Editing
15
Crew
4
2026
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
About Narration
2016
EXPRMNTL
as Himself
2015
A German Youth
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Harun, who only drinks beer, has a glass of wine (2011).
as Harun Farocki
2008
Kulturplatz
as Self
2005
Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Harun Farocki
as Self
2005
Who is Helene Schwarz?
as Self
2005
Palette revisited
2002
Starbuck Holger Meins
as Self
1997
The Expression of Hands
1995
Interface
as Self
1995
Workers Leaving the Factory
as Narrador
1995
Grimme Award
as Self
1993
Navy Cut
1991
Images of the World and the Inscription of War
as Self (uncredited)
1988
Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith
as Self
1986
Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser
1984
Class Relations
as Delamarche
1983
Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"
1983
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
1982
Filme von Peter Weiss
as Self
1981
"Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics
as Self
1981
Zeit der langen Nächte
as Günter
1980
Henry Angst
1979
Putting Things Straight
1978
A Picture of Sarah Schumann
as Self / Interviewer
1978
"Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec.
as Film director
1978
Between Two Wars
1978
Cinématon
as N°1068
1976
Es stirbt allerdings ein jeder, fragt sich nur wie und wie Du gelebt hast (Holger Meins)
1975
Kampf um ein Kind
1975
About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright
as (voice)
1971
Something Self Explanatory (15x)
1970
Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)
1970
Die Teilung aller Tage
1969
The Inextinguishable Fire
1969
Wochenschau I: Requiem für eine Firma
1968
Their Newspapers
1968
Break the Power of the Manipulators
1967
Farocki dreht
1967
3000 Houses
Cinématon n°1068 : Harun Farocki