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Harun Farocki
Farocki in 2013
Farocki in 2013
BornHarun El Osman Faroqhi
(1944-01-09)9 January 1944
Neutitschein, Czech Republic
Died30 July 2014(2014-07-30) (aged 70)
OccupationFilmmaker, writer
NationalityGerman
Spouse
Ursula Lefkes
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(m. 1966; died 1996)​

Antje Ehmann
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(m. 2001)​
Children2

Harun Farocki (9 January 1944 – 30 July 2014) was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film.[1]

Early life and education

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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. His German mother had been evacuated from Berlin due to the Allied bombing of Germany.[3][4] He simplified the spelling of his surname as a young man.[2] After World War II Farocki grew up in India and Indonesia[3][4] before the family resettled in Hamburg in 1958.

Farocki, who was deeply influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Luc Godard, studied at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) from 1966 to 1968. He began making films – from the very beginning, they were non-narrative essays on the politics of imagery – in the mid-1960s.[2] 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.[2] He later was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He died unexpectedly on 30 July 2014, aged 70.

Work

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He made over 90 films, the vast majority of them short experimental documentaries.

In his 2000-2003 three-part installation, Eye/Machine, Farocki coined the term "operational image".[5][6][7][8]

Farocki's work was included in the 2004–05 Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania.[9]

A first major UK retrospective of his films was held at Tate Modern in 2009. [10]

The 2011 exhibition "Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance)" at the Museum of Modern Art was the first comprehensive solo exhibition of Farocki's work in a U.S. museum.[11]

Films (selection)

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(D = Director, E = Editor, S = Screenplay, P = Production, A = Actor)

  • 1969: Die Worte des Vorsitzenden - The Words of The Chairman
  • 1969: Nicht löschbares Feuer - Inextinguishable Fire (Short, D)
  • 1970: Die Teilung aller Tage - The Division of All Days (D, E, S)
  • 1971: Eine Sache, die sich versteht (D, S, P)
  • 1975: By Hook or by Crook (S)
  • 1978: Zwischen zwei Kriegen (Between Two Wars) (D, E, S, P) - Himself / narrator
  • 1979: Ich räume auf (A) - Herausgeber
  • 1980: Henry Angst (A)
  • 1981: Etwas wird sichtbar (A)
  • 1981: Etwas wird sichtbar - Before Your Eyes Vietnam (D, S, P)
  • 1983: Ein Bild - An Image
  • 1983: Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet (at work on Franz Kafka's "Amerika")
  • 1984: Klassenverhältnisse (Straub-Huillet's) (A) - Delamarche
  • 1985: Betrogen (Betrayed) (D, S)
  • 1986: Wie man sieht (As You See) (D, S, P)
  • 1987: Bilderkrieg (D)
  • 1987: Die Schulung
  • 1989: Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges (Images of the World and the Inscription of War) (D, S, P)
  • 1990: Leben: BRD - How to live in the Federal Republic of Germany (D, S, P)
  • 1991: Videogramme einer Revolution (Videograms of a Revolution) (D, S, P)
  • 1993: Was ist los? - What's up? (D, S)
  • 1994: Die Umschulung
  • 1995: Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik (Workers Leaving the Factory)
  • 1995: Schnittstelle
  • 1996: Die Bewerbung - The Interview (TV) (D, S)
  • 1996: Der Auftritt - The Appearance
  • 1997: Stilleben - Still Life (D, S)
  • 1997: Nach dem Spiel (P)
  • 1998: Worte und Spiele
  • 2000: Die innere Sicherheit - The State I Am In (S)
  • 2000: Gefängnisbilder (Prison Images) (D, S)
  • 2001: Auge/Maschine
  • 2001: Die Schöpfer der Einkaufswelten - The Creators of the Shopping Worlds (D, S)
  • 2003: Erkennen und Verfolgen (D, S, P)
  • 2004: Nicht ohne Risiko (D, S, P)
  • 2005: Die Hochzeitsfabrik (P)
  • 2005: Ghosts (S)
  • 2006: Am Rand der Städte (P)
  • 2007: Aufschub
  • 2007: Respite - first episode of Memories (Jeonju Digital Project 2007)
  • 2009: Zum Vergleich (D, S)
  • 2009-2010: Serious Games I-IV Video series
  • 2012: Barbara (S)
  • 2014: Phoenix (S)

DVD

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Images of the world and the inscription of war and Respite were released on Region 0 DVD on 7 June 2011 by Survivance.[12]

Personal life

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Farocki's first wife, Ursula Lefkes, whom he married in 1966, died in 1996. His survivors include his second wife, Antje Ehmann, whom he married in 2001; twin daughters from his first marriage, Annabel Lee and Larissa Lu; and eight grandchildren.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Forbes, Alexander (31 July 2014). "Harun Farocki, Celebrated Filmmaker, Dead at 70". Artnet. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e Margalit Fox (3 August 2014), Harun Farocki, Filmmaker of Modern Life, Dies at 70 New York Times.
  3. ^ a b Germany, SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg (31 July 2014). "Einflussreicher Filmemacher: Harun Farocki ist tot - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Kultur". Spiegel.de. Retrieved 22 March 2017.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ a b Dotzauer, Gregor (31 July 2014). "Harun Farocki - Bilder, die die Welt zerlegen". TagesSpiegel.de. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  5. ^ Image Operations. Manchester University Press. 24 December 2016. doi:10.7228/manchester/9781526107213.003.0004. ISBN 978-1-5261-0721-3.
  6. ^ Hoel, Aud Sissel (8 October 2018). Operative Images. Inroads to a New Paradigm of Media Theory. De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110464979-002. ISBN 978-3-11-046497-9.
  7. ^ "Operational Images - Journal #59 November 2014 - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  8. ^ "Operational Images – Preface in the forthcoming book". Machinology. 16 February 2022. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  9. ^ "Carnegie International Exhibition - Michael Maltzan Architecture". MMaltzan.com. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  10. ^ "Harun Farocki. 22 Films 1968-2009".
  11. ^ "Harun Farocki: Images of War (At a Distance) | MoMA".
  12. ^ "Images du monde et inscription de la guerre // En sursis de Harun Farocki - Survivance". www.survivance.net. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
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Academic articles

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