Harun Farocki was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film.
Background
Farocki was born as Harun El Usman Faroqhi in Neutitschein, Sudetenland. His father, Abdul Qudus Faroqui, had immigrated to Germany from India in the 1920s. After World World War II Farocki grew up in India and Indonesia before the family resettled in Hamburg in 1958.
Education
Farocki, who was deeply influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Luc Godard, studied at the German Film and Television Academy in West Berlin.
Career
He simplified the spelling of his surname as a young manitoba He began making films — from the very beginning, they were non-narrative essays on the politics of imagery — in the mid-1960s. From 1974 to 1984, when its publication ceased, he edited the magazine Filmkritik.
From 1993 to 1999, Farocki taught at the University of California, Berkeley.
He later was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He died unexpectedly on 30 July 2014, aged 70.
(Doctorate = Director, East = Editor, South = Screenplay, P = Production, A = Actor)
1969: Die Worte des Vorsitzenden - The Words of The Chairman
1969: Nicht löschbares Feuer - Inextinguishable Fire (Doctorate)
1970: Die Teilung aller Tage - The Division of All Days (Doctorate, East, South)
1971: Eine Sache, die sich versteht (Doctorate, South, P)
1975: Auf Biegen oder Brechen (South)
1978: Zwischen zwei Kriegen - Between Two Wars (Doctorate, East, South, P)
1981: Etwas wird sichtbar - Before Your Eyes Vietnam (Doctorate, South, P)
1983: Ein Bild - An Image
1983: Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at work on Franz Kafka"s "Amerika"
1984: Straub-Huillet"s Klassenverhältnisse (A)
1985: Betrogen - Betrayed (Doctorate, South)
1986: Wie man sieht - As You See (Doctorate, South, P)
1987: Bilderkrieg (Doctorate)
1987: Die Schulung
1989: Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges - Images of the World and the Inscription of War (Doctorate, South, P)
1990: Leben: Bundesrepublik - How to live in the Federal Republic of Germany (Doctorate, South, P)
1991: Videogramme einer Revolution - Videograms of a Revolution (Doctorate, South, P)
1993: Was ist los? - What"s up? (Doctorate, South)
1994: Die Umschulung
1995: Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik - ers Leaving the Factory
1995: Schnittstelle
1996: Die Bewerbung - The Interview (television) (Doctorate, South)
1996: Der Auftritt - The Appearance
1997: Stilleben - Still Life (Doctorate, South)
1997: Nach dem Spiel (P)
1998: Worte und Spiele
2000: Die innere Sicherheit
2000: Gefängnisbilder - Prison Images (Doctorate, South)
2001: Auge/Maschine
2001: Die Schöpfer der Einkaufswelten - The Creators of the Shopping Worlds (Doctorate, South)
2003: Erkennen und Verfolgen (Doctorate, South, P)
2004: Nicht ohne Risiko (Doctorate, South, P)
2005: Die Hochzeitsfabrik (P)
2005: Ghosts (South)
2006: Am Rand der Städte (P)
2007: Aufschub
2007: Respite - first episode of Memories (Jeonju Digital Project 2007)
2009: Zum Vergleich (Doctorate, South)
2009/2010: Serious Games I-IV, Video series
2012: Barbara (South)
2014: Phoenix (South)
Images of the world and the inscription of war and Respite were released on Region 0 on 7 June 2011 by Survivance. Embodied histories. Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică"s Videograms of a Revolution.
Membership
Akademie der Künste Berlin.