Harun Farocki

Harun Farocki ( born January 9, 1944 in Neutitschein, German Empire, now Czech Republic ) is a filmmaker, author and university lecturer in film. He is one of the important essay filmmakers and has more than 90 films realized.

Life

Harun Farocki studied from 1966 to 1968 in the first year of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin ( dffb). From 1974 to 1984 he was editor of film criticism.

Together with Hanns Hisser 1976 he staged Heiner Müller's pieces The Battle and tractor in the Theater Basel. In the years 1993 to 1999 he was a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley ( California), since 2000 at the dffb and the University of the Arts Berlin. Since 2004 he teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

In the 2000s, Harun Farocki has created a series of artworks that are shown in the exhibition and museum context, including installations on prisons or even shopping malls. In 2006 he curated together with his wife Antje Ehmann in Vienna, the exhibition cinema like never before, which was shown in Berlin in 2007.

At the Documenta 12 (Kassel 2007) Harun Farocki began with the media installation Deep Play (2007) part.

Farocki is a screenwriter for many feature films by director Christian Petzold.

Selected films

(R = Director, S = average, B = screenplay, P = production )

Documentary

  • Model / reality - Christoph Hübner in conversation with Harun Farocki, Germany 2004, 60 min, work from the series Documentary, written and directed by Christoph Hübner and Gabriele Voss, Production: ARD, WDR, ZDF and 3sat, Original Air Date: February 20 2005 3sat, information from the WDR to movie

Awards

  • 2006: Herbert Quandt Media Award for the documentary " Not without risk "
  • 2009: ARTE documentary award for his film " comparison "
  • 2009: Wilhelm Loth Prize 2009
  • 2012: Special Award to Roswitha Haftman price

DVD

  • 2011: " Images of the World and Inscription of War" and "Procrastination "

Interviews

  • "Homeless people at the airport. Language and film, film language, " Jungle World, November 8, 2000, No 46, Harun Farocki in conversation with Rembert Hüser
  • "The little rash for a big decision ," Jungle World, No. 41, 1997, interview with Harun Farocki on the German Autumn
  • " Images like a message in a bottle ", taz, July 1, 2008 Farocki about the concentration camp Westerbork
  • From '68 to learn learn to see is, Tagesspiegel, 14 July, 2009
  • "It's a kind of capitalist socialism, which is designed as " jungle world, 5 July 2012

Exhibitions

  • Sprengel Museum, Hanover: Not Without Risk (29 March to 2 August 2009 )
  • Museum Ludwig, Cologne: Harun Farocki - exhibition and film program (31 October 2009 to 7 March 2010)
  • SEVEN SCREENS, OSRAM Art Projects, Munich: recasting. Variation opus 1 of Tomas Schmit ( 20 May to 21 November 2010)
  • Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria: Soft Mounts / Soft Monday's (23 October 2010 to 9 January 2011)
  • Art- Space Pythagorion Pythagorion, Samos Greece: Harun Farocki - Between eye and hand (July 20, 2012 to September 20, 2012 )
  • Edith - Russ -Haus, Oldenburg: Harun Farocki - Game and rules (April 12, 2013 to June 9, 2013 )
  • Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich: 'Play Time ( 15 March-29 June 2014). Works on display: A new product (2012), The Application (1997)
German Reich Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin Hanns Zischler Christian Petzold (director) Videograms of a Revolution Ghosts (2005 film) Westdeutscher Rundfunk Bochum Integrated Authority File
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