Name Harun Farocki | Role Filmmaker | |
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Spouse Antje Ehmann (m. 2001–2014), Ursula Lefkes (m. 1966–1996) Children Larissa Lu Faroqhi, Annabel Lee Faroqhi Parents Abdul Qudus Faroqui, Lili Draugelattis Movies Videograms of a Revolution, Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik, The Inextinguishable Fire, Images of the World and the In, Phoenix Similar People Christian Petzold, Antje Ehmann, Andrei Ujica, Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld | ||
Harun farocki and paola yacoub at beirut art center
Harun Farocki (9 January 1944 – 30 July 2014) was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film.
Contents
- Harun farocki and paola yacoub at beirut art center
- 2014 loop panels harun farocki in conversation with mark nash
- Early life and education
- Work
- Films selection
- DVD
- Personal life
- Academic articles
- References
2014 loop panels harun farocki in conversation with mark nash
Early life and education
Farocki was born as Harun El Usman Faroqhi in Neutitschein, Sudetenland. 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 German Film and Television Academy in West Berlin. 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)
(D = Director, E = Editor, S = Screenplay, P = Production, A = Actor)
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.