1998

    • Words and Games

      The new production plants for the daily chat- and game shows are on the periphery; in the case of Unterföhring near Munich on the extension to the Bahnhofstraße named Medienallee (Media Avenue). This industry is so new …

    • The Chief Executive Officer

      From material produced for "The Interview". Contribution to the magazine program "Brut" (arte) …

    1997

    • The Advertisement Info

      From material produced for "Der Auftritt" / "The Appearance". Contribution to the magazine program "Brut" (arte).

    • The Expression of Hands

      Historically, the cinema close-up was initially employed to convey emotions through facial expressions. But soon filmmakers also began focusing their attention on hands. Using film extracts, Farocki explores …

    • Still Life

      According to Harun Farocki, today's photographers working in advertising are, in a way, continuing the tradition of 17th century Flemish painters in that they depict objects from everyday life – the "still life" …

    • The Interview

      In the summer of 1996, we filmed application training courses in which one learns how to apply for a job. School drop-outs, university graduates, people who have been re-trained, the long-term unemployed, recovered drug addicts …

    1996

    • The Ad Guy

      From material produced for "The Appearance". Contribution to the magazine program "Brut" (arte).

    • The Appearance

      The head of a Berlin advertising agency explains his proposed strategy to his potential client, a Danish optical company. The communication strategy that we ultimately came up with as a basis …

    • The Theater of the Retraining

      From material produced for "Die Umschulung" / "Indoctrination". Contribution to the magazine program "Brut" (arte) …

    • Kitchen Helpers

      From material produced for "Was ist los?" / "What's Up?" Contribution to the magazine program "Brut" (arte).

    1995

    • Workers Leaving the Factory

      "Workers Leaving the Factory" – such was the title of the first cinema film ever shown in public. For 45 seconds, this still existant sequence depicts workers at the photographic products factory in Lyon owned by the brothers …

    1994

    • The Leading Role

      1989, the fall of the Berlin wall. Television crews trying, for days on end, to get an emblematic image which would crystallise the event: to no avail. Five years later, Farocki delivers a montage film of this footage, trying to define …

    • Retraining

      Yes.Yes.Yes.Yes.Yes.Yes.. This is the record of a successful sales discussion. When the buyer has said five times, the teacher explains, his brain has become so sluggish, that he'll say yes a sixth time …

    1993

    • A Day in the Life of a Consumer

      Harun Farocki plunders 40 years of advertising films, which he orchestrates to constitute an ironic 24 hours in the life of typical consumers. Mixing different colours, periods, various …

    1992

    • Camera and Reality

      What a television critic has always wished to see and never got to see: the continual flow of images just occasionally being stopped, so as to examine them more closely, to discuss them, to analyze them, look at them again …

    • Videograms of a Revolution

      In Europe in the fall of 1989, history took place before our very eyes. Farocki and Ujica's "Videograms" shows the Rumanian revolution of December 1989 in Bucharest in a new media-based form of historiography …

    1991

    • What's Up?

      How a look can be turned toward its goal by grasping and measuring its covetousness is shown in an exemplary fashion in "What's Up?" in a motif depicting a postcard of a painting by Titian in an eye-mark recorder …

    1990

    • How to Live in the FRG

      The author assembles a genre picture of the contemporary FRG with shots of scenes where life is rehearsed, ability/durability is tested. Wherever one looks, people appear as actors playing themselves; they take on roles …