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Harun Farocki (9 January 1944 – 30 July 2014) was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. [1] Early life and education. Farocki was born as Harun El Usman Faroqhi [2] in Neutitschein, which is now Nový Jičín in the Czech Republic. His father, Abdul Qudus Faroqui, had immigrated to Germany from India in the 1920s.
Learn about Harun Farocki, a German filmmaker who made political essay films and direct cinema works about labor, images, and war. Explore his 43 online works, exhibitions, and publications at MoMA.
Aug 4, 2014 · Aug. 3, 2014. Harun Farocki, an avant-garde German filmmaker and video artist whose work examined the ways images are used to inform, instruct, persuade and propagandize, died on Wednesday near...
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Harun Farocki (1944-2014) was a German film director, screenwriter and media artist who made documentaries and essay films about modern society. He taught at several universities and influenced the "Berlin School" film movement.
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May 8, 2024 · Harun Farocki (born January 9, 1944, Neutitschein, Sudetenland (now Nový Jičín, Czech Republic—died July 30, 2014, Berlin, Germany) was a Czech-born German filmmaker, video artist, and writer known for his provocative politicized “film-essays,” assemblages of footage from several sources accompanied by subtitles or voice-over commentary.
A tribute to the late German filmmaker Harun Farocki, who made more than one hundred works of political and formal experimentation. Explore his hybrid genre of essay film, his critique of images by images, and his engagement with power/knowledge.
Learn about the life and work of Harun Farocki, a pioneer of experimental film and media art who explored the powers of the image. He died in 2014, leaving behind more than 120 films and installations, as well as essays and books.
