Harun Farocki Movie Trailers

Re-education Trailer (1994)

09 June 1994

Farocki revisits the executive trainer from his earlier "Die Schulung" (Indoctrination, 1987), this time holding a seminar with ex-GDR employees of a West German construction company.

Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down" Trailer (2010)

01 January 2010

An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. Filmed at the United States Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Watson is Down pairs footage of soldiers at computers engaging in combat-simulation training with scenes from the video games.

Bedtime Stories: Cat Trailer (1977)

01 January 1977

"As if pictures could think! Einschlafgeschichten doesn't really speak of bridges or railroads but rather of two girls filling the space between daytime and dreamtime with a poetic game, an endless game, a game with no end.

Brunner ist dran Trailer (1973)

08 October 1973

A cinematic interpretation and literary adaptation of a text by Charles Baudelaire. "I had intended that each of the roughly 60 shots would be static, without even the imperceptible correction pans normally used in such cases.

Industry and Photography Trailer (1979)

03 January 1979

Farocki frequently chooses a single news photo as his pretext. In his film he explains convincingly that 'learning from images' is not so much a question of having power over the image or a consistent subject-position towards the image, which would allow the filmmaker access to complete knowledge.

Die Menschen stehen vorwärts in den Straßen Trailer (1987)

14 November 1987

A film based on the poem of the same name by Georg Heym (1911).

Palette revisited Trailer (2005)

19 October 2005

Die Palette was a legendary basement bar at 55 ABC Street, where a colorful crowd of dockworkers, vagrants, students and runaways, artists and petty criminals gathered in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow Trailer (2010)

01 January 2010

An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. In A Sun With No Shadow, Farocki calls attention to the subtle differences between the simulations for combat training and PTSD.

Eye / Machine II Trailer (2002)

01 January 2002

In Eye/Machine II, Farocki has brought together visual material from both military and civilian sectors, showing machines operating intelligently and what it is they see when working on the basis of image processing programs.

Indoctrination Trailer (1987)

19 February 1987

This film is about a five-day seminar designed to teach executives to "sell themselves" better. This course, designed for managers, teaches the basic rules of dialectics and rhetoric and provides training in body language, gesture and facial expression.