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Farocki, Harun

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Personal name headingFarocki, Harun
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Variant(s)Faroqhi, Harun El Usman
Associated countryGermany
Germany
LocatedBerlin
Birth date1944-01-09
Death date2014-07-30
Place of birthNový Jičín (Czech Republic)
Place of deathBerlin Region (Germany)
Field of activityExperimental films Video art
Profession or occupationIndependent filmmakers Artists Film teachers
Found inSpeaking about Godard, c1998: t.p. (Harun Farocki) authors' p. (Berlin-based director and film essayist)
IMDb, accessed via WWW Apr. 3, 2013 (Harun Farocki, director, writer, producer, editor, cinematographer, actor; b. Sept. 1, 1944 in Nový Jičín, Czech Republic; he has been credited pseudonymously as Rosa Mercedes and Mercedes Rossa [no publications in LC database])
New York times (online), viewed Aug. 4, 2014 (in obituary published Aug 3: Harun Farocki; b. Harun El Usman Faroqhi, Jan. 9, 1944, Neutitschein (now Novy Jicin), in what was then German-annexed Czechoslovakia; simplified the spelling of his surname as a young man; after the war, he and his family lived in India and Indonesia before resettling in West Germany; d. Wednesday [July 30, 2014], near Berlin, aged 70; avant-garde German filmmaker and video artist whose work examined the ways images are used to inform, instruct, persuade, and propagandize)
Wikipedia, viewed August 26, 2020: Czech Harun Farocki page (Harun Farocki; born 9 January 1944 in Nový Jičín; died 30 July 2014 in Berlin; German film director; after World War II, lived in India and Indonesia; moved to Germany in 1958; taught at the University of California, Berkeley, 1993-1999; laer taught at the Academy of Arts in Vienna) German Harun Farocki page (Harun Farocki; born Harun el Usman Faroqhi; German filmmaker, author and university film teacher; created over 90 films; lived in Hamburg from 1958; lived in Berlin from 1962)
   <https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harun_Farocki>
   <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harun_Farocki#cite_note-3>
Associated languageger eng