1969

    • Untitled or: Nixon comes to Berlin

      In Switzerland people say, "I don't recall", when they mean "I don't remember", but which sounds like, "I won't remember" …

    • Inextinguishable Fire

      "When we show you pictures of napalm victims, you'll shut your eyes. You'll close your eyes to the pictures. Then you'll close them to the memory. And then you'll close your eyes to the facts." These words are spoken at the beginning …

    • Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets

      According to Fritz J. Raddatz, Rosa Luxemburg cried when she read Marx's concept of value. I was just as disappointed by the "Cine-Tracts" made in May 1968 in Paris and shown shortly afterwards in Berlin …

    1968

    • Untitled or: The Wandering Cinema for Engineering Students

      The film "Wanderkino für Ingenieurstudenten" was part of the extra-parliamentary opposition's (APO) so-called 'technology campaign' aimed at politicizing the students at the technical universities and schools of engineering …

    • Three Shots at Rudi

      On Easter 1968 an assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke was carried out. Shortly afterwards street battles resulted throughout West Germany. Farocki's short film "Drei Schüsse auf Rudi" is presumably lost.

    • White Christmas

      One of the many films drawing a connection between Christmas and war. It is unclear whether the longing for a white Christmas is being taken seriously, or whether it is intended as a denunciation …

    • Their Newspapers

      "Ihre Zeitungen" is a political film rooted in the 1968 student campaign against the Springer press group, which controlled popular dailies such as the Berliner Zeitung and the Bild Zeitung …

    1967

    • The Campaign Volunteer

      "Der Wahlhelfer" deals with the development of a young trainee lawyer and FDP (Free Democrat Party) supporter who becomes a revolutionary. As it is an agitation film one cannot really speak of 'development' …

    • The Words of the Chairman

      I was on a ship – this sounds like a novel: I had just embarked for Venezuela on June 2, 1967 as the Shah of Iran was arriving in West Berlin. There were protests, a student was shot, and a new form of opposition movement came into existence …

    1966

    • Two Paths

      This short piece for the television station Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) is highly relevant to Farocki's later work. "Zwei Wege" is a description of a picture! Farocki shows us an image of an oil painting, a religious allegory showing …

    • Everybody a Berliner Kindl

      "Jeder ein Berliner Kindl" was the first film Farocki made at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. The film deals with advertising for Berliner Kindl, a local beer. "It is a matter of the act of self-refutation, an act which is, however, far more …