
Olena Lyubchenko on Whiteness, Expropriation, War, and Social Reproduction in Ukraine (via LeftEast): “[…] when we hear on the news that ‘Ukraine is fighting a European war’ and ‘Ukraine is defending Europe’, amid images of fleeing ‘poor white’ women with children prioritized over racialized ‘Others’, ‘Ukraine’ is being made ‘white’ in the global imaginary. That is, “the injunction to ‘return to Europe’ by way of Europeanization is enabled and conditioned on the mythologies of Western civilization, and that Europeanization at once marks (promulgates) and unmarks (naturalizes) racial whiteness” [Nadezhda Husakouskaya and Randi Gressgård]. The paradox is that Europe’s existence as such has only been possible precisely because of the exploitation of global working peoples through expropriation of resources and today neoliberal economic reforms and reproduced by feminized labour.”
Vasyl Cherepanyn about the “inertness, hiding behind the European Wall” (via L’Internationale): “Many Western institutions that have been claiming ‘radical political engagement’ for years, have simply resorted to a white cube radicalism and self-satisfying humanitarianism, too afraid of acting politically beyond their comfort zone and unsettling their publics and authorities by attempting to affect the decision-making process regarding the Ukrainian cause.”
May 28th, 2022
Tatsiana Shchurko on the War in Ukraine, Entangled Imperialisms, and Transnational Feminist Solidarity, via LeftEast (May 2, 2022): “[An] uneven knowledge production and the many implications of the war against Ukraine reveal the dire need to develop a feminist anti-capitalist critique of multiple imperialisms. This language should grow from within the occupied and suppressed communities of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. An anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist feminist positionality grasps that the local is part of a global in an effort to build transnational connections of mutual aid and support against state and corporate violence. For example, statements of solidarity with Ukraine expressed by the International Committee of Indigenous Peoples of Russia and Native American communities along with the anti-war feminist march in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) on March 8, 2022, pointing out that the war in Ukraine should be of concern for a broad transnational community, may serve as instrumental examples of alternative anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist solidarities that stretch beyond state regulations and macro-politics and foreground decolonial perspectives, necessary in addressing entanglements of multiple imperialisms. Such solidarities also bring to light hidden interconnections of the past that allowed for distant communities to survive and support each other against the violence of imperialist intervention and its attendant capitalist exploitation. Thus, the march in Bishkek reminds of the socialist roots of the International Women’s Day to call for internationalist, intersectional, class solidarity against imperialism and militarism.”
Vasyl Cherepanyn on that “It’ll take more than tanks to ease Germany’s guilt” (via Politico): “Since the Soviet Union’s collapse, Germany has been imposing neocolonial optics on its Eastern European ‘peripheries,’ and on the post-Soviet space in particular, where Ukraine was long considered a gray buffer zone about which the EU was ‘deeply concerned.’ Germany didn’t bother itself much with differentiating between former Soviet countries’ pasts. Even until recently, any Ukrainian agenda in Germany was often ‘balanced’ with a Russian perspective, so as to not exclude the latter by any means.”
An unnamed anarchist and art scholar, who joined the Territorial Defense Forces, quoted by Olexii Kuchanskyi in an essay on “Digital Leviathan and His Nuclear Tail” (via Your Art and e-flux notes): “At dawn, Dima and I talked about cinema. Dima believes that cinema is inferior to literature as a means of expression because you spend much more time with a book than a film. It’s a really interesting point, something to dig into. I studied at the department of art theory & history and I never thought of it. Dima served in the military after school and worked at the factory all his life. He listens to rap, smokes pot, and tries to have fun. He is thirty-eight, his child was born last year. He likes Wong Kar-wai and is a fan of Asian cinema in general. Dima communicates by quoting Omar Khayyam, Confucius, and other awesome guys.”
April 20th, 2022
Vasyl Cherepanyn (Visual Culture Research Centre, Kyiv) on Putin’s “World War Z” and the West’s deadly “foot-dragging”, via Project Syndicate: “The main feature of this Western condition is constant belatedness. The West has always been too late, incapable of acting ahead and instead just reacting to what has already happened. As a Ukrainian joke went at the time, ‘While the European Union was taking a decision, Russia took Crimea.’ Then as now, Ukrainians wondered, ‘What is the West’s red line? What will compel the West to act instead of waiting and discussing when to intervene?’”
Barbara Wurm on Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravičius, killed in Mariupol, via Die Welt: “Kvedaravičius unfolded a whole spectrum of visual anthropology over a decade with only three films [Barzakh, Mariupolis, Parthenon]. It now awaits evaluation and exploration. The time will come. The films themselves make possible an infinite immersion in the matter of the world, between dream and reality, horror and everyday life, facts and phenomenal imagology.”
April 5th, 2022
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Presented by HaFI on the occasion of Cathy Lee Crane's Harun Farocki Residency in Berlin.
Open Call deadline: July 15, 2022
June 23rd, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes
The historian Farabi Fakih discusses the formation of managerialism in decolonizing Indonesia. Based on his recent book "Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia’s Early Independence Period," Fakih introduces the making of the indigenous Indonesian manager.
June 20th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
“The first year group at the Filmhochschule München. Tabula rasa. Any long-held sentimentality about watching films was supposed to disappear, university knowledge shredded, scattered. All that remained was our own work and watching, watching, watching.” (Ingemo Engström)
May 24th, 2022 — Projects / Event
Together with Artists at Risk.
May 17th, 2022 — Residency / 2022
Start of the residency: June 8.
May 16th, 2022 — Residency / 2020
An article by Christoph Balzar on how German museums with their so-called ethnographic collections have successfully defied anti-colonial and institutional critique.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
In this 1975 television production, Farocki shows and comments on excerpts from the film "Song of Ceylon" by Basil Wright.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
"What does it mean to hang colonial paintings in a university museum in Manila?" An essay by Patrick Flores.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
An interview by Ying Sze Pek: Ho Tzu Nyen discusses three of his recent productions: "The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia" (2017–ongoing), "Hotel Aporia" (2019), and "Night March of Hundred Monsters" (2021–22).
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
An essay by Nora M. Alter on Farocki's television film on "About 'Song of Ceylon' by Basil Wright," (1975).
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
An artistic contribution in form of a textual weaving process of real encounters and unexpected delays around a gift and a yet-to-come film once named Meat Bag.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
A series of drawings by Andreas Siekmann, which unfold around the state-directed violence on fleeing bodies and the global spread and supranational intensification of the fourth power: the Exclusive as an excluding force.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
How to speak when to speak is to find yourself as if at a confessional, an interrogation booth, a court of law, or a border?
An essay by Soyoung Yoon.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
An artistic contribution by Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho, based on their ongoing study of a church mural by Alfonso Ossorio on the island of Negros in the Philippines.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
The writer Glenn Diaz reflects on the possibilities and limitations of empathy as a social instrument.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
The artist Alice Creischer provides the footnotes to her work with the same title in which the history of New Caledonia coincides with the present of Tropical Islands Resorts in Brandenburg.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
An article by Zikri Rahman on the undocumented and stateless seafaring Bajau Laut community and the alternative pedagogical practice of the network of schools Sekolah Alternatif.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
An artistic contribution by Lim Paik Yin that approaches the practice of Bantengan while reflecting on its own approximation.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
An article by Ramon Guillermo on the practice of translation by analyzing the openings and closures of Walter Benjamin’s essay „The Task of the Translator.“
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
An article by Nazir Harith Fadzilah on the revival of the Jawi language through the medium of education, publication and research.
May 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 04
"We collect these videos for future researchers and documentary filmmakers so that they could use the catalog and include these videos in their work (after coordinating the terms of use with their authors)." By DOCUDAYS UA
May 11th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 05
A project to support Ukrainians who are recording the horrors of war. By TIMOTHY SNYDER
May 10th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 05
Part of "Coincidences in Prepositions", a publication program conceptualized to review questions, propositions and solutions that have been set up in the dis/continuities of many colonial milieus...
April 25th, 2022 — Projects / Event
We live with, through and by stories. We make stories alive, and they keep us alive, it's a two-way process. By MARICHKA LUKIANCHUK
April 14th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 05
The Ukraine war is now the third major crisis in a sequence (after the so-called refugee crisis and the pandemic) that seems to come out of nowhere. But it doesn’t come out of nowhere, any more than the other two. By MARK TERKESSIDIS
April 5th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 05
We second the statements issued by other organizations that call for the immediate release of the eleven arrested women and the suspension of the ongoing persecution of the seven already released ones.
March 24th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes
Skip Norman/Contexts: One evening in March 1969, thirty-three-year-old Bobby Seale gave a speech in the packed-to-capacity main hall of Copenhagen’s Grundtvigs Hus.
March 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / Contexts
In the attempt to contribute to the distribution of information on organizations, initiatives, and networks of support and aid, this list of links may complement already existing repositories; it will be augmented continuously from now on.
March 13th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 05
A series of non-thematic events on Zoom that discursify the inextricability of ‘prepositions’ and propositions...
March 10th, 2022 — Projects / Event
The issue is dedicated to Harun Farocki's only directorial work for the theatre.
March 10th, 2022 — Projects / Publication
To oppose the epistemological assaults of the current war and the rule of operational images. Rosa Mercedes 05: Invitation to contribute
March 9th, 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 05
"One has to wish for images that precisely reproduce small singularities of a specific time." (Farocki)
February 28th, 2022 — Archive / Showcase
Skip Norman/Contexts: What kind of diasporic kinship and friendship lies behind the joint work of Norman, Cullen, Brooks, and Foreman?
February 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / Contexts
A cooperation with the Berliner Gazette.
February 22nd, 2022 — Projects / Publication
A series of non-thematic events on Zoom that discursify the inextricability of ‘prepositions’ and propositions...
February 15th, 2022 — Projects / Event
Skip Norman/Contexts: Skip Norman’s films made between 1966 and 1969 while a student at the DFFB were followed by the independent productions On Africa and Washington DC, November 1970.
February 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / Contexts
A series of non-thematic events on Zoom that discursify the inextricability of ‘prepositions’ and propositions in/from/with each other...
January 20th, 2022 — Projects / Event
Skip Norman/Contexts: The Blackman’s Volunteer Army of Liberation (not to be confused with the Black Liberation Army), was one of many Black radical groups affiliated with the Black Muslim Movement in the late 1960s.
January 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / Contexts
An insight into the research behind Farocki’s installation Comparison via a Third and its cinematic version In Comparison
January 13th, 2022 — Projects / Publication
Skip Norman/Contexts: In 1976, Skip Norman began studying for a BA in the Liberal Arts at the College of Arts and Sciences, the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
January 2022 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / Contexts
Skip Norman/Contexts: Blues People, the title of Skip Norman’s notorious 1968 short that features the naked bodies and voices of a white woman and a Black man, quotes the title of LeRoi Jones’ book of 1963, Blues People: Negro Music in White America.
December 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / Contexts
Information about BLUES PEOPLE: "There are four main elements which mediate the film’s intentions: music, text, stills, and black film."
December 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / Docs
A comprehensive research on transnational learning at the DFFB by Madeleine Bernstorff.
December 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / C
An essay by Karina Griffith on Black Femininity in Skip Norman's Strange Fruit.
December 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / C
A conversation between Greg de Cuir Jr and Michael Boyce Gillespie on Skip Norman.
December 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / C
Showing Skip Norman's ON AFRICA.
December 10th, 2021 — Projects / Event
Skip Norman/Contexts: Impressed by the direct cinema of Albert Maysles, Richard Leacock, and D. A. Pennebaker, Klaus Wildenhahn (1930–2018) translated their methods to the West German context.
December 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / Contexts
A series of non-thematic events on Zoom that discursify the inextricability of ‘prepositions’ and propositions...
December 5th, 2021 — Projects / Event
Coincidences in Prepositions is a publication program conceptualized to review questions, propositions, and solutions that have been set up in the dis/continuities of many colonial milieus...
December 5th, 2021 — Projects / Publication
Skip Norman/Contexts: From the late 1960s to the 1990s, the WDR “Filmredaktion” offered remarkable production opportunities for young filmmakers, many of them graduates (or relegates) from the new film schools in Berlin and Munich.
November 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / Contexts
Skip Norman/Contexts: "It becomes obvious after analyzing the content of most films on the Black experience by Black filmmakers that they are all, in one way or another, films of resistance. Consciously or unconsciously, overtly or covertly, they have elements or images that resist forces in society that oppress Black people." (Alonzo Crawford)
November 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / Contexts
Skip Norman/Contexts: During his years as a student at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB) between 1966 and 1969, Skip Norman was as prolific a cinematographer as he was a director.
October 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / Contexts
Skip Norman/Contexts: In a document compiled for the eighteenth birthday of the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB) in 1984, Skip Norman lists the festivals where the films he directed were screened.
October 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / Contexts
For the fifth HaFI residency in collaboration with IASPIS, we have invited Malmö-based artist, curator and writer Hans Carlsson.
October 5th, 2021 — Residency / 2021
Peter Hoffmann pointed us to Lutz Mommartz’ film Wählt ADF (Vote ADF). The film can be seen on Mommartz’ website.
October 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / Docs
Conceived as a year-long project, our partner Berliner Gazette will initiate diverse activities, most importantly a series of texts and a conference.
October 1st, 2021 — Projects / Event
The first HaFI book in collaboration with the Viennese publishing house Synema.
September 15th, 2021 — Projects / Publication
An online event organized by Journal of Visual Culture and HaFI.
September 14th, 2021 — Projects / Event
"Kein Schöner Archiv" documents the intangible cultural heritage of the postmigrant society.
September 14th, 2021 — Projects / Event
Our cooperation partners organize for the second time the Radical Film Network Meeting Berlin. With a contribution from Elske Rosenfeld based on the HaFI 014 pamphlet.
August 18th, 2021 — Projects / Event
Das Arsenal organizes the first edition of the "Archival Assembly" festival, which brings together film archives and film archival projects, including HaFI, for an exchange with the public.
August 18th, 2021 — Projects / Event
Equal part powerful and moving, angry and heartbreaking, righteous and desperate, hopeless and demanding of a better future, together this polyphony posits if not an actual antidote then certainly abundant curative reflections to the disease and ways we might navigate this ongoing crisis.
June 15th, 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Volume 5, now released, brings together all of the texts published in the years 1986-2000 and offers insights into some of Farocki's seminal cinematic and installation works from this period.
June 8th, 2021 — Projects / Publication
See German post.
May 15th, 2021 — Archive / Showcase
see German post.
May 3rd, 2021 — Archive / Showcase
A comprehensive essay by Gerd Conradt on his friend and fellow student.
April 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / B
A conversation with Carlos Bustamante about Skip Norman.
April 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / B
In his first film Das Zimmer, Johannes Beringer processes his first impressions of West Berlin.
April 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / B
In Situationen, Johannes Beringer captures the presence of the allied forces in the city, shows teenagers dancing in a dance hall and film students discussing the future of the film school.
April 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / B
Recollections of Skip Norman by Johannes Beringer.
April 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / B
Helke Sander’s memories of Skip Norman.
April 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / B
Georg Lehner on collaborating with Skip Norman on one of his films.
April 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / B
Brigitte Tast's collage and the editorial from Frauen und Film, Issue 5 (1975)
April 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / Docs
A conversation between Shirikiana and Haile Gerima.
April 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / B
Klaus Wyborny on his time at the cinema department in Columbus.
April 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / B
These photographs were enclosed with a letter sent by Skip Norman to Carlos Bustamante in August 1982.
April 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / B
In HaFI 014, artist Elske Rosenfeld reflects on the reading of the fragmentary archival materials for Farocki's unfinished film "Hard Selling" (1991) with her own text/image essay.
April 8th, 2021 — Projects / Publication
see German post.
March 31st, 2021 — Archive / Showcase
What is highlighted in the present discussion are the possibilities offered by bringing to light not just what has been secluded but also the opportunities that emerge from revealing their structures of seclusion. It might well be worthwhile promoting a discourse such as that which has emerged around embarrassment. By DAVID DIBOSA
March 1st, 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
see German post.
February 28th, 2021 — Archive / Showcase
"Lie," "fraud," "perpetrator," "victim," "forgery," "deception," "censorship," "deprivation of liberty," "betrayal," "violence," and, yes, "conspiracy" — these are not arbitrarily chosen expressions of everyday culture, but juridifying terms used for rhetorical weaponization in all parts of the political sphere. By FELIX REIDENBACH
February 9th, 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
This short snippet of silent 8 mm film was filmed by Ingrid Oppermann in West-Berlin, possibly close to her apartment in Kurfürstenstraße, where Harun Farocki’s The Words of the Chairman (1967) was shot.
January 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / Docs
On December 22, 1933, I was born in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., as a first son. I spent my childhood in Washington, D.C. […]
January 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / A
Gerd Conradt went to see Skip Norman in North Cyprus in 2002. Their conversation focuses on Holger Meins, who, like Conradt and Skip Norman, but also Harun Farocki, Helke Sander or Hartmut Bitomsky, started to study film at DFFB in 1966.
January 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / A
From time to time, DFFB conducted surveys among their alumni. This one, entitled “DFFB ‘volljährig’” (DFFB “adult”) was published in 1984 at the occasion of the institution’s 18th birthday.
January 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / A
A letter sent by Skip Norman to Helene Schwarz, the secretary who had been at DFFB since the school's beginnings and was an important confidante for many of the students.
January 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / A
Skip Norman submitted this CV as part of his interdisciplinary PhD dissertation in Anthropology, Sociology, Photography and Cinema in 1984. It is entitled “An Examination of Centenary United Methodist Church using the Photograph as Artifact.”
January 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / A
Zora Neale Hurston emphasized the dynamics of the homogenous black community. Her creativity was rooted in the folklore of black people. As a result, there was little need to portray the white world.
January 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / A
Culture is the acquired knowledge that people use to interpret experience and to generate behavior. This cultural knowledge is like a recipe for organizing the necessary ingredients for a viable social life.
January 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 03 / A
Notions of ‘regulation’ or ‘control’ meet with the long-venerated dreams of automation, to naturalise as the work of algorithms, not people. By JESS HENDERSON
January 25th, 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Contributions from individuals and communities both inside and outside of academia, in particular, from activists, artists, filmmakers, policymakers and researchers are welcome. Extended Deadline: February 15, 2021.
January 15th, 2021 — Projects / Publication
This idea, that the virus would only effect the other, someone somewhere far, collapsed in the following days. BY BASTARDPRODIGE
January 5th, 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
They ate more, took off again, and moved to the next tree. We walked with them. BY ISOBEL WOHL
January 4th, 2021 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
see German post.
January 2nd, 2021 — Archive / Showcase
see German post.
December 22nd, 2020 — Archive / Showcase
Organized by the Berliner Gazette at Haus der Statistik from November 7 - 28, 2020. A cooperation with HaFI.
December 14th, 2020 — Projects / Event
see German post.
November 28th, 2020 — Archive / Showcase
HaFI publications in Korean and Turkish
November 16th, 2020 — Projects / Publication
However, it’s okay to have Game Night once in a while, because it allows us to socialize. Using wrinkles to toggle dry light. By DEATH CLASS
November 13th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
A glimpse into the genesis of IMAGES OF THE WORLD AND THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR (1988).
To be released shortly, HaFI 013 can already be ordered at Motto Books.
November 6th, 2020 — Projects / Publication
Organized by the Berliner Gazette, the Winter School “Silent Works” investigates possibilities for re-inventing ‘the school’ along the lines of ‘the factory.’
November 4th, 2020 — Projects / Event
... regarding aerial reconnaisance photographs of Auschwitz-Birkenau taken during World War II
October 30th, 2020 — Archive / Showcase
The production of knowledge, fake news, has no source, no center. There is no author. By VLADIMIR MILADINOVIĆ and STEPHENIE YOUNG
September 30th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
see German post.
September 30th, 2020 — Archive / Showcase
“The game on TV is Tom and Jerry, the game in the EU is refugees and the police.” By NIKA AUTOR
September 17th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
The current crisis is making many of us increasingly amenable to other forms of more mundane automation. By JOEL McKIM
September 17th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
With a donation you can support our work on the English autobiography.
September 15th, 2020 — About us / Support
Bielefeld University enables the further production of preview films from the filmography of Harun Farocki.
September 15th, 2020 — About us / Support
The Open Call runs until September 25, 2020.
September 11th, 2020 — Projects / Event
A panel discussion about Berlin vs. Amazon and the Berliner Gazette's Silent Works project, a partnership with HaFI.
September 11th, 2020 — Projects / Event
HaFI participation with a panel dedicated to Farocki and his TV collaboration with the WDR.
September 11th, 2020 — Projects / Event
How can, how should these images be looked at? And how do they unsettle the contemporary gaze?
September 1st, 2020 — Projects / Publication
If we have reason to panic, what do we do with it, where do we go? Again, how do we get out of here? By DANIEL A. BARBER
August 31st, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
See German post.
August 30th, 2020 — Archive / Showcase
More people are having powerful dreams that get their attention than in typical times. By JORDAN BASEMAN
August 27th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
We know that their echoes will continue reverberating in the system’s cracks, each time becoming louder and more visible. By ARTS CATALYST
August 26th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Bring it on (bring it all up) say the cards, and let everything bleed ... By PLASTIQUE FANTASTIQUE
August 8th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Remains of magnolias blown away/Branches fall. Power out. By ALEXANDRA DÉLANO ALONSO
August 5th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
There is something visceral about the refusal to place a protective barrier across the mouth and nose, and to do so in the name of “freedom” or “just because.” By KIMBERLY JUANITA BROWN
July 26th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
The kind of hope that I will speak of here is immanent, yet precisely as the immanent force of finitude. By JOHN PAUL RICCO
July 22nd, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
see German post.
July 16th, 2020 — Archive / Showcase
The psychology of finite resources can only exist under the conditions of oppression, so let's burn down the master’s house and its tools. By JANINE FRANCOIS
July 7th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
It is remarkable how much we can discover in our immediate spaces when our attention has not been captured by the constant haste of our responsibilities. By EDINSON ARROYO
July 5th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
See German post.
June 30th, 2020 — Archive / Showcase
I see ghost bodies that are trapped into an unattainable time-space of which the image’s virtuality reinforces the feeling. By VANESSA CIMORELLI
June 28th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Burdened with a doubtful reputation, the practice and attitude of escapism may eventually prove to hold an adequate response to the dire realities of the present and the time to come.
June 27th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
For the art school to survive, let alone thrive, we will have to adjust not only our tactics for working and teaching, but also for industrial action. By JULIET JACQUES
June 26th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
We read Arendt’s words as an undeniable exhortation to what may be may transpire when the economic and social crisis exacerbated by Covid-19 soon manifests in full. By LUIS FEDUCHI
June 23rd, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
The whole operation appears intrinsically flawed, reflecting a collective colour-blind attitude that has become particularly visible in light of recent events. By ALESSANDRA FERRINI
June 17th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
The transient nature of knowledge production today, whether in the solution-averse casualised university or the history-averse design program, is a matter of its exacerbating devaluation. By BAHAR NOORIZADEH
June 17th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
The more piercingly the crisis sirens howl, the greater the hunger for dedicated emergency workers, determined people of action and indomitable freedom fighters. By ULRICH BRÖCKLING
June 12th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
The world sleeps, the axes change. The world wakes up, and the sun falls on empty streets. By ANDREAS PHILIPPOPOULOS-MIHALOPOULOS
June 10th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
How can we create work from within these imposed conditions and reflect on them at the same time? By PIL AND GALIA KOLLECTIV
June 7th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
If we can collectively grasp this narrative, kick them out as soon as possible we can have it all!!!! By HANA NOORALI and LYNTON TALBOT
June 2nd, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
I couldn’t help but question, if bringing our bodies together in this way plays into the logic of resilience measures the British government has come to calculate as necessary collateral damage for the UK economy to start again? By HELENE KAZAN
June 2nd, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
In its new blanket use, it points to medical conditions, chronic illnesses and disabilities that, in combination with age, we are told, are the real factors determining the death of thousands of people from the virus. By ELISA ADAMI
June 2nd, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
See German post.
May 30th, 2020 — Archive / Showcase
Social proximity at an ideological level may, thanks to those who must necessarily remain physically proximate in medical and care situations, protect people by enabling physical distance. By DEAN KENNING
May 29th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
We thank all our supporters!
May 26th, 2020 — About us / Support
Experimental filmmaker Cathy Lee Crane (U.S.A.) is the fourth guest of the Harun Farocki Residency.
May 26th, 2020 — Residency / 2020
A dossier consisting of documents and images on the "prison images" complex from the HaFI archive, compiled by HaFI.
May 26th, 2020 — Projects / Publication
The issue #109 Navigation Beyond Vision II of the e-flux journal is now online.
May 26th, 2020 — Projects / Publication
Hidden curricula, nudging regimes, governmentalities—they are coming to the fore now, accruing obscene visibility in a big stand-off between liberal individualism and uniformizing state rule.
May 25th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Alongside these ‘necro-visualisations’ of human tragedy, the concept of the model cuts across the public imagination as a harbinger of what might be and what was. By TOM CORBY
May 25th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Comparing the corona-phenomena to previous epidemic occurrences allows us to gain a grain of understanding and to make sense of the void, of absent bodies. By ANTOINE SIMEAO SCHALK
May 23rd, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
The ‘great withdrawal’ has made the circulations that make up subject-object relations almost brutally concrete. By LINA HAKIM
May 22nd, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
The mines are exploited and emptied. There is a lacuna—left as a poisonous gift of modernity. Debris next to a village. Next to my village. By VINIT AGARWAL
May 21st, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Those resistant to the idea of sortition as a substitute for election are often surprised when it is made clear to them that the use of random selection is a standard and reliable practice in many representative democracies. By LUIS FEDUCHI
May 16th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Window Poster # 1 + Colouring-in Version, May 2020. Poster designed by JAMES SMITH
May 16th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Calling the hospitals by the person epitomising modern nursing was not a simple misnomer but a poor attempt at dressing up a wolf bred by austerity in the clothes of a sheep versed in historical knowledge. By JELENA STOJKOVIC
May 15th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Our own cells split the foreign intruder, allowing it to contaminate our body, turning ourselves into our own evil twins. By LANA LIN and H. LAN THAO LAM
May 15th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
It turns out that Seligman had chronicled the psychic wounds of colonialism, revealing a political order fundamentally at odds with Britain’s self-understanding. By MARGARETA KERN
May 13th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
They have recorded the song in Zulu, each vocalist recording in their own home and supplying these voice-messages to be incorporated into this new rendition of the song. By PHILIP MILLER
May 13th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
"Once the bats were trapped, the researchers took blood and saliva samples, as well as fecal swabs."
May 10th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
The emergency measures are rules of composition. By DAVE BEECH
May 10th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Really: that brachiosaurus-sized crane puts time into perspective, making more tangible the way the world may have looked when it teemed with life at that scale. By SARA BLAYLOCK
May 9th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Appropriating the simplicity of play, it seems, might come with consequences. By ERAY ÇAYLI
May 6th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
How tired the world has become of this human and its spectre. By YVE LOMAX
May 5th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
The confusion and turbulence of COVID: that is the place we all share now. It’s the first movement of the sonata, grave. By PATRICIA R. ZIMMERMANN
May 5th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
As a society, in a way unlike any other, the question is out in the open: what does it mean to consider the lives of others? By ANDREA LUKA ZIMMERMAN
May 4th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Perhaps we do not need a critique of the power-relation in “giving a voice” but of the very demand for a body to produce a recognizable voice in the first place. By ALEXANDRA PIRICI
May 3rd, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
The non-human futures of the SARS-CoV-2 virus will not be written to be stored in the digital archive. Its trans-species assemblage will have had vectors that are imperceptible to us today. By AMIT S. RAI
May 3rd, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
I see my dry hands, clean as hell, as never before. And I see fear in a handful of sanitizer. A dispatch from Warsaw. By KASIA BOJARSKA
May 2nd, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
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April 30th, 2020 — Archive / Showcase
We, survivors, were born for this crisis. By OREET ASHERY
April 30th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
April 2020 saw gatherings of the American right-wing that declared they demand to “re-open the economy,” as they call it. These protests were payed for by the wealthiest donors to the US Republican party. By JOSHUA SIMON
April 29th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
We may ask, whether in the current, transitional period of social distancing, where intermingling, contact and proximity have become anathema, the notion of entanglement is already accruing a new set of connotations, regardless whether we understand it in a concrete or metaphorical sense. By ERIC C. H. DE BRUYN
April 29th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
"[...] a tsunami of derivative, cliche ads all within a week of one another. It's not a conspiracy - but perhaps a sign that it's time for something new" (Microsoft Sam)
April 27th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
I lift one side of the headphones away from my left ear dispelling the patch of workplace that has been mapped onto the kitchen table for the last hour or so. By JON THOMSON and ALISON CRAIGHEAD
April 25th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Biocontainment suits, biological hoods, and isolation tents create physical separation, but allow for visual access, between the infected and the hygienic. By SHANNON MATTERN
April 25th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
"In chaos causality is lost, strategy and leadership no longer work as well, and we are left powerless."
April 23rd, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
A small selection of texts written by the outstanding film critic and translator Frieda Grafe, complemented by a speech from Harun Farocki.
April 22nd, 2020 — Projects / Publication
Is the sender genuinely asking me if I am well or safe or healthy? By DANAH ABDULLA
April 22nd, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
By a pupil at The Meadows Primary School, Lincoln, with RUTH EWAN
April 21st, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
The choices of headlines and visual artwork reflect the editorial and national context of each magazine.
April 20th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
He was let down by both governments… By JORDAN McKENZIE
April 20th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
"She is wearing a lab coat and a face mask and is saying, in the softest tone possible, that she is about to take a nasal swab to test for the virus. It’s scary and soothing at the same time."
April 19th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
(...) how and where am i supposed to read the nuances by which I understand the world (...) By TERESA CISNEROS
April 18th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
The background and experience from which the new instructional visuals on the coronavirus crisis are being produced, inform the reduction guided by notions of didactic efficiency.
April 16th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Media corporations will likely leverage the CoVid-19 crisis to insist that ubiquitous high-bandwidth media constitute an essential service. By LAURA U. MARKS
April 16th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
In the corona triage the temporality of field surgery and the asymmetrical chronopolitics of age cohort, class affiliation and racial predicament meet in a new constellation.
April 13th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Interaction designer Christian Lässer is able to render evident (and visible) how the topic of the epidemic has gradually taken possession of Die Zeit – up to the full blown monopolization of its editorial content.
April 11th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
It seems to me as if theoretical persuasions are now being confirmed not only in practice, but literally embodied. By JAN DISTELMEYER
April 9th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Shouldn’t this crisis demand an urgent politics of the domestic, specifically of those who have the privilege to #stayathome?
April 5th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
There is "a good chance that the large-scale experimentation with telepresence, which has long met with much resistance, will encourage its lasting adoption" (André Gunthert).
April 3rd, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
The Coronacrisis cover artwork of the French daily newspaper Libération, starting with the issue of January 23, continuing without interruption from March 9 to ...
April 2nd, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
The V-shape recession, a sudden deep trough, followed by a quick surge, for few, and the Germans with their economic strength and infamous intransigence when it comes to economic solidarity most certainly among them, is becoming analogous to the V-ictory-sign (in the wake of the V-irus ...)
April 1st, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
It seems as if Suely Rolnik has already in 2005 anticipated the effects of the virus that is currently chokeholding the world: For the already discriminated minorities, including the predominantly black service providers and domestic workers recruited from the favelas, are now considered particularly at risk. By SABETH BUCHMANN
March 31st, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Photos by LUDGER BLANKE
March 31st, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
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March 31st, 2020 — Archive / Showcase
The retreat into "solitary facelessness," however, may have different faces, depending on local histories and urgencies.
March 30th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
If anything could stand-in as a primary culprit in the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus that is circling the globe with seemingly unprecedented speed, it might be the jet plane. By VANESSA SCHWARTZ
March 30th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Today: Le Petit Journal (February 1911), covering the devastating 1910/1911"pest" in Manchuria
March 29th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Albeit everyone seems to believe otherwise, every crisis has a history. Hence this crisis has a history as well. BY MARK TERKESSIDIS
March 27th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Today: a reportage on the cholera in Hamburg in 1892 from the Illustrated London News.
March 27th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
In our compromised and entangled ways, we try to keep going, trying to transmutate heteronomy into shades of autonomy. By SVEN LÜTTICKEN
March 26th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
First delivery: an illustrated reportage on the cholera in Naples in 1884 from the Illustrated London News.
March 25th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Beneath the current debates and statements about the "costs" of lockdowns and social distancing, beneath Trumpian disengagement from medical cure (in his attempt to decouple the health catastrophe of the pandemic from the "problem" of ecomomic repression and de-growth), there lurks the most vicious vision/version of "therapeutic nihilism."
March 25th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
This weekend's news about 65 Cuban doctors, nurses and technicians arriving in Milan to support the Italian health system's struggle against the coronavirus are a forceful reminder of Fidel Castro's medical internationalism.
March 23rd, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Perhaps live streaming should be reduced to the bare minimum: to tutorials around health and medical issues, to tele-meetings of the infected and vulnerable with their loved ones, to non-commercial online courses in the newly decentralized educational systems.
March 21st, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
What if the irreversible situation in which the "world community" is now being united, forced to reimagine itself, has entailed a sudden leap in visibility regarding the global accumulation of crises - not primarily as a result of tireless research, political organizing, artistic productions etc., but rather as a correction of the collective sensorium on a gigantic scale?
March 20th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Among the most unsettling attributes that have quickly gained notoriety (and poignancy) due to the the current crisis' new linguistic conventions and discursive framings can be counted "from a distance" or "remote".
March 19th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
In the current situation (and any comparable state of emergency caused by an epidemic) much of the existing hope hinges on the statistical and epidemiological sciences that model an event like this by means of computational processing.
March 18th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
A photograph of nurse Elena Pagliarini, fallen asleep, that was taken last week at the end of one of her shift at 6 a.m. in the emergency room of the hospital of Cremona, a particularly badly affected town in Lombardy.
March 17th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
By now, as to be expected from a news situation as engrossing as this one, the compulsion to reach an (or even the image) of the pandemic (if not the world history of pandemics), is tantamount...
March 16th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Marxist biologist Rob Wallace, founder of Structural One Health [...] renders – vividly and frighentingly – the broader context of the coronavirus crisis...
March 15th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Pëtr Kropotkin's anarchist-anti-capitalist-commonist-animalist notion of "mutual aid" has been gaining traction for a while already...
March 15th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
An insightful contribution by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos on the socio-ethical dimensions of the crisis...
March 15th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Among the countless troubling aspects of the Covid-19 crisis is the liberating effect it has on AI-based surveillance technologies and policies...
March 15th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
Angela Mitropoulos' article "Against Quarantine" is an important intervention in the debate around the COVID-19 crisis...
March 15th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
As the Coronavirus crisis is evolving, it becomes harder to tell what kind of image the most publicised image of/on the crisis is exactly...
March 15th, 2020 — Rosa Mercedes / 02
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February 29th, 2020 — Archive / Showcase
The screening is part of the #Forum 50 series of the Berlinale.
February 28th, 2020 — Projects / Event
A list of previous digitisations from the holdings of the HaFI
February 3rd, 2020 — Archive / Showcase
Screening of the three-part WDR program on the “Other Cinema” (1969) - with Harun Farocki among others.
January 6th, 2020 — Projects / Event
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January 6th, 2020 — Archive / Showcase
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December 16th, 2019 — Archive / Showcase
The first presentation of the unfinished film HARD SELLING by Harun Farocki, which was recently found in the HaFI archive.
November 15th, 2019 — Projects / Event
You can support the printing of Farocki’s writings with a donation now.
November 13th, 2019 — About us / Support
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November 12th, 2019 — Archive / Showcase
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September 27th, 2019 — Archive / Showcase
The Public Screening is now being continued with a curated program by Stefan Pethke.
September 2nd, 2019 — Projects / Event
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August 31st, 2019 — Archive / Showcase
The booklet is dedicated to the WDR editor Werner Dütsch (1939-2018), who produced numerous films from Harun Farocki.
August 4th, 2019 — Projects / Publication
New publication: Volume 4 of Farocki's Writings.
August 4th, 2019 — Projects / Publication
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July 30th, 2019 — Archive / Showcase
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June 30th, 2019 — Archive / Showcase
Premiere of the film and material unearthed in the archive of the Harun Farocki Institute will be shown beforehand.
June 28th, 2019 — Projects / Event
The current issue 101 on “Navigation Beyond Vision” is now online.
June 28th, 2019 — Projects / Publication
The video documentation is now online.
May 27th, 2019 — Projects / Event
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May 26th, 2019 — Archive / Showcase
What can archives do for today’s society? How are historical realities translated into contemporary narratives? Can transformation be archived?
May 7th, 2019 — Projects / Event
Against Cinema, against Culture
April 30th, 2019 — Archive / Showcase
Wild's first longer film is set between the fronts of the 1980s revolution in the Philippines (...).
April 25th, 2019 — Projects / Event
In 1977 Ingemo Engström and Gerhard Theuring embark on a journey through France. They trace the escape route of the German emigration in France 1940/41 (...).
April 24th, 2019 — Projects / Publication
HaFI is one of the participating institutions in Archive Außer Sich since 2017. A complete overview of our activities is now available on a dedicated website.
April 24th, 2019 — Projects / Event
The meeting focuses on artistic/creative and political/ethical positions within global radical film cultures and video activism movements.
April 24th, 2019 — Projects / Event
Texts and documents concerning the production context at "Westdeutscher Rundfunk", Cologne
April 6th, 2019 — Projects / Research
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March 22nd, 2019 — Archive / Showcase
Navigation begins where the map ends (...).
February 27th, 2019 — Projects / Event
The film diverges from traditional ethnographic work and is instead a multi-layered media translation (...).
February 27th, 2019 — Projects / Event
An experimental essay documentary film on the concept of “Nationality”.
February 26th, 2019 — Residency / 2017
Text excerpts.
February 25th, 2019 — Residency / 2018
irregularly, not haphazardly
February 21st, 2019 — Archive / Showcase
Contributions from individuals and communities both inside and outside academia, from artists, activists, filmmakers, researchers, scientists and others are welcome.
January 30th, 2019 — Projects / Event
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January 12th, 2019 — Archive / Showcase
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January 7th, 2019 — Archive / Showcase
The film portrays the four wives of a marabout in Niger, enclosed in the eponymous courtyard of a building complex. They manage to develop micro-economic strategies to form relationships with the exterior world.
January 3rd, 2019 — Projects / Event
In December 2018 we celebrated the three-year existence of HaFI together with the friends, the Farocki family, and our project partners...
January 3rd, 2019 — About us / Support
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November 17th, 2018 — Archive / Showcase
The presentation "Harun Farocki As A Method" revisits films and artworks from Egypt and the context of the Arab world.
October 25th, 2018 — Residency / 2018
A screening with Ali Hussein Al Adawy, the third Harun Farocki residency scholarship holder.
October 25th, 2018 — Projects / Event
A cooperation event with HaFI.
October 23rd, 2018 — Projects / Event
As history continues, more and more marks are left on the surface of the earth.
October 18th, 2018 — Archive / Showcase
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September 30th, 2018 — Archive / Showcase
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September 29th, 2018 — Projects / Publication
Godard stopped traveling to foreign countries, his camera must not even drive around much by car.
September 15th, 2018 — Projects / Publication
From the beginning of September we will be welcoming Ali Hussein Al Adawy as the third fellowship holder of the Harun Farocki Residency in Berlin.
August 31st, 2018 — Residency / 2018
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August 30th, 2018 — Archive / Showcase
The film combines enacted scenes and historical material and is about the past and present of Levantkade in Amsterdam’s old harbor (...)
August 27th, 2018 — Projects / Event
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July 23rd, 2018 — Archive / Showcase
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July 4th, 2018 — Projects / Publication
A discovery from Farocki’s estate will be shown on this occasion.
July 2nd, 2018 — Projects / Event
A film about the legal process against the ‚Plowshares Eight‘, eight members of the Christian peace movement in US, who hammered a nuclear warhead to pieces at a weapon’s factory.
July 2nd, 2018 — Projects / Event
Jürgen Ebert will present and talk about the last unpublished issue of the magazine, Filmkritik No. 335-336, Nov-Dec 1984, now released on the occasion of "Edit Film Culture!".
June 30th, 2018 — Projects / Event
With a delay of over 33 years the last unpublished issue of the magazine, Filmkritik No. 335-336, Nov-Dec 1984, will now appear. This edition is dedicated to the filmmaker Emile de Antonio.
June 30th, 2018 — Projects / Publication
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June 30th, 2018 — Archive / Showcase
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May 31st, 2018 — Archive / Showcase
Nightshift explored the work of women in relation to politics, film, desire, and society.
May 25th, 2018 — Projects / Event
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April 30th, 2018 — Archive / Showcase
A reprint of the yearly indexes from 1975 to 1983, supplemented by the the index for 1984 which was still missing.
April 24th, 2018 — Projects / Publication
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March 30th, 2018 — Archive / Showcase
The titles of Norman's films all hint at the struggle to assert an Afro-American identity in a world shaped by whites.
March 15th, 2018 — Projects / Event
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February 10th, 2018 — Archive / Showcase
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January 22nd, 2018 — Archive / Showcase
The first edition of Rosa Mercedes online journal. An audio journey with Marianna Maruyama through the Farocki Now Academy in Berlin
January 9th, 2018 — Rosa Mercedes / 01
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December 30th, 2017 — Archive / Showcase
Logik des Gefühls: What happens? Nothing much. […] Where is it set? In an in-between space, between lost love and a coming love. Winter. Berlin. 1981.
December 22nd, 2017 — Projects / Event
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December 16th, 2017 — Projects / Publication
News from the archive: INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PULL OFF POLICE HELMETS and UNTITLED OR: NIXON COMES TO BERLIN, both made in 1969.
November 30th, 2017 — Archive / Showcase
HaFi presents the film PROFESSION: DOCUMENTARIST, followed by a discussion between Shirin Barghnavard and Constanze Ruhm
November 7th, 2017 — Residency / 2017
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October 31st, 2017 — Archive / Showcase
In the framework of the "Farocki Now" Academy, the UdK (University of the Arts) Berlin organises a LARP. Roles are still available upon registration.
October 17th, 2017 — Projects / Event
For the second Harun Farocki Residency we have invited the Tehran-based Iranian filmmaker and editor Shirin Barghnavard to Berlin for three months.
October 11th, 2017 — Residency / 2017
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September 30th, 2017 — Archive / Showcase
A forum for workshops, presentations, and debates which explore the contemporary relevance of Harun Farocki’s work and thought, placing it in new contexts and activating its productive potential
September 18th, 2017 — Projects / Event
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September 18th, 2017 — Projects / Publication
Tonight: Opening of the retrospective of Harun Farocki's work for cinema and television at Kino Arsenal.
September 15th, 2017 — Projects / Event
From “A for Adorno” to “Z for Zidane” – an ABCs of the Essay Film accompanied by a short text Farocki wrote in 1987.
September 8th, 2017 — Projects / Publication
A selection of materials pertaining to the film "Before Yor Eyes - Vietnam" introduced by a commentary penned by the Harun Farocki Institut.
September 8th, 2017 — Projects / Publication
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August 31st, 2017 — Archive / Showcase
See German post.
July 1st, 2017 — Archive / Showcase
Political commitment, thirst for research and stamina. A film by Ogawa Productions.
June 26th, 2017 — Projects / Event
Factories and families as places of exploitation, which don’t just have to be interpreted but also changed.
May 16th, 2017 — Projects / Event
Documentary filmmaker Gerhard Benedikt Friedl describes Helmut Färber's method of teaching film history.
May 10th, 2017 — Projects / Publication
Helmut Färber’s 80th anniversary was celebrated by some (German language) texts in the media
April 26th, 2017 — Projects / Research
A mythological road movie, a squatter and hacker story.
March 17th, 2017 — Projects / Event
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March 10th, 2017 — Projects / Research
Kevin B. Lee about Farocki's working paper "What Ought to Be Done".
February 23rd, 2017 — Residency / 2016
The talk will include the screening of "Ronny und Harun spielen Theater" which is a short documentary of a staged scene from “Etwas wird sichtbar” (“Before Your Eyes Vietnam”), 1982.
February 16th, 2017 — Projects / Event
See German post.
February 6th, 2017 — Residency / 2016
Formulating a poetic framework to explore the contemporary landscape of media and terror.
January 31st, 2017 — Residency / 2016
A brilliant (and moving) lesson of how to navigate a post-cinema small screen reality.
January 16th, 2017 — Residency / 2016
Harun Farocki saw the film in 1971 at the Hamburger Filmschau. In the succeeding years, he worked closely with Engström.
January 7th, 2017 — Projects / Event
Kevin B. Lee will give a „light-typing lecture“ introducing his works and practice.
January 6th, 2017 — Residency / 2016
The blog of the HaFI residency publishes the immediate and informal experiences made by the HaFI residency fellows.
January 6th, 2017 — Residency / 2016
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January 6th, 2017 — Residency / 2016
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November 30th, 2016 — Projects / Research
Kevin B. Lee will be the first guest of the Harun Farocki residency from the middle of December onwards
November 30th, 2016 — Residency / 2016
Architecture, Instructional Technology, and the Social Production of Pedagogical Space Around 1970
November 30th, 2016 — Projects / Research
Letters exchanged between Harun Farocki, Peter Weiss and Westdeutscher Runfunk (WDR): A glimpse at the production history of "On Display: Peter Weiss".
November 11th, 2016 — Projects / Publication
For the Harun Farocki Institut, Peter Weiss’ 100th birthday on November 8, 2016 meant an opportunity to take a closer look at Farocki’s WDR program “On display: Peter Weiss”.
November 8th, 2016 — Projects / Research
A guided tour followed by a screening and a talk with Carles Guerra and Bert Rebhandl.
November 1st, 2016 — Projects / Event
See German post.
October 25th, 2016 — Projects / Research
We were isolated individuals and simultaneously subsumed into a totality*
October 12th, 2016 — Projects / Event
See German post.
September 15th, 2016 — Projects / Research
‘What is navigation?’ inquires the curatorial seminar 2016/17 of the CCC Research-Based Master Programms / Visual Arts Department of HEAD – Geneva.
September 5th, 2016 — Projects / Research
Expropriating Television.
September 1st, 2016 — Projects / Research
The Harun Farocki Institut organizes Farocki Now - A Temporary Academy as a component of the “Harun Farocki Retrospective”.
August 30th, 2016 — Projects / Event
A working paper by Farocki (1975/76), a commentary by Tom Holert, Doreen Mende and Volker Pantenburg followed by a letter by Peter Nestler.
August 17th, 2016 — Projects / Publication
The Institut's first public appearance at Berlinale 2016. A graffiti by Harun Farocki.
February 7th, 2016 — Projects / Publication
Material to investigate the present, the future past. Impressions from the archive of the Farocki Institut.
February 4th, 2016 — Projects / Publication