Harun Farocki Net Worth is
$1.2 Million

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The German film director, screenwriter and media artist Harun Farocki was created for the 9th January 1944 in Nový Jicín [Neutitschein], in those days an integral part of Czechoslovakia annexed by the 3rd Reich. He was the boy of the immigrated Indian doctor and a German female. Farocki 1st researched Theater, Sociology and Journalism in the ‘Freie Universität (FU)’ in West-Berlin. From 1966 to 1968 he researched at the brand new ‘Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)’ within their 1st generation including college students as diverse as potential Hollywood-director Wolfgang Petersen, potential feminist filmmaker Helke Sander and potential RAF-terrorist Holger Meins. Affected by Jean-Luc Godard and Bertolt Brecht Harun Farocki steadily developed his personal unique design of non-narrative-filmmaking worried about understanding, reflecting and confronting society. Since 1966 Farocki created, wrote and aimed a lot more than 100 brief and feature-length movies for tv and cinema, mainly documentaries and article movies, that analyzed sociable realities with an accurate use of shifting images that constantly included the politics and sociological framework mixed up in creation of imagery. Since 1996 Farocki got several group and single exhibitions in museums and galleries world-wide, for example in the ‘MOMA’ in NY, the ‘MUMOK’ in Vienna, the ‘Jeu de Paume’ in Paris as well as the ‘Museum Ludwig’ in Cologne, accompanied by retrospectives of his movies at many establishments just like the ‘Tate Contemporary’ in London or the ‘Center for Contemporary Artwork’ in Warsaw. Farocki’s involvement in the esteemed “documenta” in 1997 and 2007 can be an indication from the large influence that his movies and video installations acquired in the artwork context, but believe it or not was his impact in the film globe: Six of his movies were provided in the ‘Community forum’ from the ‘Berlin International Film Celebration’ and two even more movies won awards on the ‘Locarno International Film Celebration’ in 2003 and 2007. In ’09 2009 the important French newspaper “Cahiers du cinéma” called Farocki’s and Andrei Ujica’s celebrated masterpiece Videogramme einer Trend (1992) among the 10 most subversive movies available. Farocki’s lifestyle included authoring film and teaching mass media, as well: From 1974 to 1984 he was the editor from the journal “Filmkritik”, released in Munich. In 1998 he released the reserve “Talking about Godard” (as well as Kaja Silverman). From 1993 to 1999 Farocki was a going to professor on the ‘School of California Berkeley’. From 2000 to 2004 Farocki taught in Berlin at his previous school ‘DFFB’ with the ‘School from the Arts’. In 2004 Farocki initial became a going to professor and in 2006 a complete professor on the ‘Academy of Great Arts’ in Vienna. Being a instructor Harun Farocki acquired a substantial cinematic and intellectual impact on the advancement of the acclaimed “Berlin College” film motion. He himself co-wrote five celebrated feature movies of its most prominent member Christian Petzold, who utilized to end up being his pupil and helper. Harun Farocki was wedded to Ursula Lefkes from 1966 until her loss of life in 1996. That they had two kids (twin daughters) jointly. In 2001 Antje Ehmann became his second wife and like Lefkes a regular collaborator on his movies. On July 30, 2014 Harun Farocki passed away at age 70 in his house near Berlin.

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