Shopping malls have become a familiar feature of contemporary life, an almost unavoidable element of the consumer experience. An analytical documentary that examines how these seemingly pleasurable environments are carefully engineered to encourage consumption, through strategic planning, marketing and surveillance.

With a montage of film extracts, this documentary explores how hands create meaning on screen, betraying emotions and bearing witness.

From the factory gates in the Lumière brothers’ first moving images to the industrial landscapes of the twentieth century: the factory and its workers have been a recurring subject throughout cinema history. Through a careful montage of images, this essay film reveals the intertwined histories of cinema and industrial capitalism.

Bucharest, 1989. From the balcony of the People’s House, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu gives his final public speech, before being cut short by a protesting crowd. Executed four days later, his downfall marks the beginning of a new era. An essayistic documentary that examines how a revolution was mediated through images.

Through a series of historically charged visuals, including aerial photographs of Auschwitz and archival images from colonial Algeria, this documentary interrogates how seeing, recording, and interpreting images shapes our understanding of the past and the present.

Through a series of historically charged visuals, including aerial photographs of Auschwitz and archival images from colonial Algeria, this documentary interrogates how seeing, recording, and interpreting images shapes our understanding of the past and the present.

Over four days in a Munich studio, a small crew and a model create the cover photograph for Playboy Magazine. A clinical portrait of how an apparently spontaneous fantasy is meticulously constructed.

How to depict the cruelty of napalm without making the viewer look away? An analytical deconstruction of modern warfare, examining the compartmentalised roles scientists and engineers play in the production of destructive weapons, and exposing the nexus between industry, politics and violence.

Filmmaker Harun Farocki played a pioneering role in exposing the underlying social, political, and technological structures through which images are produced and circulated. This collection shows how his films challenge what seems self-evident by deconstructing our perception of the everyday.