 After World War II Farocki grew up in India and Indonesia before the family resettled in Hamburg in 1958.Farocki, who was deeply influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Luc Godard, studied at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin from 1966 to 1968.He began making films – from the very beginning, they were non-narrative essays on the politics of imagery – in the mid-1960s.