During the 1970s and ‘80s, Harun Farocki was not as well known as Fassbinder, Schlöndorff, and Kluge – the group that came to be known as New German Cinema. Yet Farocki's films constituted more of a departure from or radical alternative to dominant cinematic practice. Farocki was a member of the first year class of the Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB), and his classmates included Helke Sander, Hartmut Bitomsky,Wolfgang Peterson, and former protester and activist Holger Meins. Though Farocki was not an active member of the RAF, he, like many of his colleagues, clearly sympathised with RAF politics, and during the late 1960s he produced several collaborative agitational films, such as NICHT LÖSCHBARES FEUER (INEXTINGUISHABLE FIRE, 1969); ANLEITUNG, POLIZISTEN DEN HELM ABZUREIßEN (INSTRUCTIONS ON TAKING AWAY SECURITY/POWER FROM THE POLICE, 1969); and Drei SCHÜSSE AUF RUDI (THREE SHOTS AT RUDI, 1968). In 1975, he paid a direct tribute to Meins with an experimental memorial film, ES STIRBT ALLERDINGS EIN JEDER (EVERYBODY MUST DIE), and in 1981, Farocki made ETWAS WIRD SICHTBAR (BEFORE YOUR EYES – VIETNAM), a meditation on two students who meet each other at an anti-Vietnam War demonstration in Berlin and discuss the possibilities of political resistance and activismwithin the parameters of acceptable behaviour. Farocki has been producing films for the past thirty years, many of the earlier ones in collaboration with filmmakers such as Hartmut Bitomsky. Most of Farocki's films problematise technologies of visual representation and reproduction, generally exposing the views inculcated by mass media and/or contrasting them with more independent coverage of the same events.