Harun Farocki Harun Farocki was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film.Early life and education Farocki was born as Harun El Usman Faroqhi in Neutitschein , Sudetenland , 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 . He simplified the spelling of his surname as a young man. After World War II Farocki grew up in India and Indonesia before the family resettled in Hamburg in 1958. Farocki, who was deeply influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Luc Godard , studied at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin 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. 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.Work He made over 90 films, the vast majority of them short experimental documentaries . Farocki's work was included in the 2004–05 Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh . Pennsylvania.Films (selection) 1969: Die Worte des Vorsitzenden - The Words of The Chairman 1969: Nicht löschbares Feuer - Inextinguishable Fire 1970: Die Teilung aller Tage - The Division of All Days 1971: Eine Sache, die sich versteht 1975: Auf Biegen oder Brechen 1978: Zwischen zwei Kriegen - Between Two Wars 1981: Etwas wird sichtbar - Before Your Eyes Vietnam 1983: Ein Bild - An Image 1983: Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at work on Franz Kafka's "Amerika" 1984: Straub-Huillet's Klassenverhältnisse 1985: Betrogen - Betrayed 1986: Wie man sieht - As You See 1987: Bilderkrieg 1987: Die Schulung 1989: Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges - Images of the World and the Inscription of War 1990: Leben: BRD - How to live in the Federal Republic of Germany 1991: Videogramme einer Revolution - Videograms of a Revolution 1993: Was ist los? - What's up? 1994: Die Umschulung 1995: Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik - Workers Leaving the Factory 1995: Schnittstelle 1996: Die Bewerbung - The Interview 1996: Der Auftritt - The Appearance 1997: Stilleben - Still Life 1997: Nach dem Spiel 1998: Worte und Spiele 2000: Die innere Sicherheit - The State I Am In 2000: Gefängnisbilder - Prison Images 2001: Auge/Maschine 2001: Die Schöpfer der Einkaufswelten - The Creators of the Shopping Worlds 2003: Erkennen und Verfolgen 2004: Nicht ohne Risiko 2005: Die Hochzeitsfabrik 2005: Ghosts 2006: Am Rand der Städte 2007: Aufschub 2007: Respite - first episode of Memories 2009: Zum Vergleich 2009/2010: Serious Games I-IV , Video series 2012: Barbara 2014: Phoenix DVD Images of the world and the inscription of war and Respite were released on Region 0 DVD on 7 June 2011 by Survivance.Personal life 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.Academic articles
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