German filmmaker, video artist, theorist and writer Harun Farocki’s work is featured in the “Security” issue of the LARB Quarterly. Farocki is known for his militant film-essays which assemble found and original footage across subjects such as visual culture and the politics of images, media, war, surveillance, technology, labor and capitalism. 

Farocki was born in 1944 in Neutitschein, an area in the Czech Republic that had been annexed by Germany at the time. He lived and worked in Berlin for over 40 years, decisively shaping the history of the political film since the 1960s. The gallery had the privilege of working with him for almost a decade before his death in 2014, and continues to foster his artistic legacy. Farocki's first film created for a museum setting, Schnittstelle (1995), marked a turning point in his career and his work has since been the subject of major institutional exhibitions, including at the Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro (2019); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul (2018); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2017); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2017); Fundacío Antoni Tapìes, Barcelona (2016); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2014); Kunsthaus Bregenz (2010); Tate Modern, London (2009); and mumok, Vienna (2007), among others.