TATE SHOTS: Harun Farocki

2016

Commissioned by Tate Modern. 

The German film-maker Harun Farocki explored themes of capitalism, consumerism, media, technology, war and entertainment. Re-inventing the 'filmic essay', his work challenged the borders between cinema and art.

Beginning his filmmaking practice in the late 1960s, Farocki combined documentary and found footage to examine subjects through associations of images. From the 1990s onwards, he made films for two or more screens that comment on one another. 

This film contains excerpts from the following Farocki works: Inextinguishable Fire (1969), Videograms of a Revolution (1992), Eye / Machine II (2001), Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades (2006), Deep Play (2007), Serious Games III: Immersion (2009), Serious Games IV: A Sun without Shadow (2010) and Parallel I-IV (2012-14).

Directed by Lindsey Dryden.