HaFI 003: On Display: Peter Weiss. A Production Dossier is now available as PDF file (here).
December 21st, 2017, Volker

“An image like a painting by ERRO.” (From the script of an early version of BEFORE YOUR EYES – VIETNAM.) See here (in German)
September 3rd, 2017, Volker“This film is made without being commissioned by any institution, without prize money and without financial aid.” (HaF about “Between two Wars”) See here (in German).
July 1st, 2017, Volker A reprint of the yearly indexes from 1975 to 1983, supplemented by the the index for 1984 which was still missing.
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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.
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February 10th, 2018, Archive / Showcasesee German post.
January 22nd, 2018, Archive / ShowcaseThe first edition of Rosa Mercedes online journal. An audio journey with Marianna Maruyama through the Farocki Now Academy in Berlin
January 9th, 2018, 01 / Rosa MercedesSee German post.
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.
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 / ShowcaseHaFi presents the film PROFESSION: DOCUMENTARIST, followed by a discussion between Shirin Barghnavard and Constanze Ruhm
November 7th, 2017, 2017 / Residencysee German post.
October 31st, 2017, ShowcaseIn 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, Event / ProjectsFor 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, 2017 / Residencysee German post
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
Tonight: Opening of the retrospective of Harun Farocki's work for cinema and television at Kino Arsenal.
From “A for Adorno” to “Z for Zidane” – an ABCs of the Essay Film accompanied by a short text Farocki wrote in 1987.
A selection of materials pertaining to the film "Before Yor Eyes - Vietnam" introduced by a commentary penned by the Harun Farocki Institut.
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August 31st, 2017, Archive / ShowcaseSee German post.
July 1st, 2017, Archive / Showcase Political commitment, thirst for research and stamina. A film by Ogawa Productions.
Factories and families as places of exploitation, which don’t just have to be interpreted but also changed.
Documentary filmmaker Gerhard Benedikt Friedl describes Helmut Färber's method of teaching film history.
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.
Kevin B. Lee about Farocki's working paper "What Ought to Be Done".
February 23rd, 2017, 2016 / ResidencyThe 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, Event / ProjectsSee German post.
February 6th, 2017, 2016 / ResidencyFormulating a poetic framework to explore the contemporary landscape of media and terror.
January 31st, 2017, 2016 / ResidencyA brilliant (and moving) lesson of how to navigate a post-cinema small screen reality.
January 16th, 2017, 2016 / Residency Harun Farocki saw the film in 1971 at the Hamburger Filmschau. In the succeeding years, he worked closely with Engström.
Kevin B. Lee will give a „light-typing lecture“ introducing his works and practice.
January 6th, 2017, 2016 / ResidencyThe blog of the HaFI residency publishes the immediate and informal experiences made by the HaFI residency fellows.
January 6th, 2017, 2016 / ResidencySee German post.
January 6th, 2017, 2016 / ResidencySee German post.
November 30th, 2016, Projects / ResearchKevin B. Lee will be the first guest of the Harun Farocki residency from the middle of December onwards
November 30th, 2016, 2016 / ResidencyArchitecture, 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".
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 / ResearchA guided tour followed by a screening and a talk with Carles Guerra and Bert Rebhandl.
November 1st, 2016, Event / ProjectsSee German post.
October 25th, 2016, Projects / ResearchWe were isolated individuals and simultaneously subsumed into a totality*
October 12th, 2016, Event / ProjectsSee 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 / ResearchExpropriating Television.
September 1st, 2016, Projects / ResearchThe Harun Farocki Institut organizes Farocki Now - A Temporary Academy as a component of the “Harun Farocki Retrospective”.
August 30th, 2016, Event / Projects A working paper by Farocki (1975/76), a commentary by Tom Holert, Doreen Mende and Volker Pantenburg followed by a letter by Peter Nestler.
The Institut's first public appearance at Berlinale 2016. A graffiti by Harun Farocki.
Material to investigate the present, the future past. Impressions from the archive of the Farocki Institut.