Director Harun Faroki died

On Wednesday, July 30, a German film director and screenwriter Harun Faroki died.

This was reported by the Berlin magazine Monopol .

Harun Faroki was born in 1944 in Czechoslovakia, in the 1960s he studied at the Academy of Cinema and Television in West Berlin. Even then, the style of his documentaryness was formed-sharply critical in relation to the mass media and how visual images form the modern world and its ideology.

In 1974-1984, Faroki edited the Munich magazine about Filmkritik , in the 1990s, he moved to the United States, taught in Berkeley. In recent years, he taught at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.

The director shot more than 90 documentary films, among which “someday you will love me too” (1973), “between the two wars” (1978), “As you see” (1986), “Pictures of the world and the signatures of war” (1988), “Live in Germany” (1990), “Hand gestures” (1997), “I thought I saw the prisoners” (2000), “It didn’t happen without risk” (2004, Herbert Kvandta Prize). The author of films dedicated to Peter Weiss, Peter Lorre, Jean-Mari Straub, Vileyum Flusser.

Harun Faroki participated in the Documenta 12 exhibition, his personal exhibitions were held in the New National Gallery in Berlin, the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Tel Aviv Museum of Fine Arts, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Tate Modern and other museums of the world.