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

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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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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

A mythological road movie, a squatter and hacker story.

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Kevin B. Lee about Farocki's working paper "What Ought to Be Done".

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.

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Formulating a poetic framework to explore the contemporary landscape of media and terror.

A brilliant (and moving) lesson of how to navigate a post-cinema small screen reality.

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.

The blog of the HaFI residency publishes the immediate and informal experiences made by the HaFI residency fellows.

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Kevin B. Lee will be the first guest of the Harun Farocki residency from the middle of December onwards

Architecture, Instructional Technology, and the Social Production of Pedagogical Space Around 1970

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”.

A guided tour followed by a screening and a talk with Carles Guerra and Bert Rebhandl.

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We were isolated individuals and simultaneously subsumed into a totality* 


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‘What is navigation?’ inquires the curatorial seminar 2016/17 of the CCC Research-Based Master Programms / Visual Arts Department of HEAD – Geneva.

Expropriating Television.

The Harun Farocki Institut organizes Farocki Now - A Temporary Academy as a component of the “Harun Farocki Retrospective”.

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.