Navigation begins where the map ends (...).

The film diverges from traditional ethnographic work and is instead a multi-layered media translation (...).

Contributions from individuals and communities both inside and outside academia, from artists, activists, filmmakers, researchers, scientists and others are welcome.

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.

A screening with Ali Hussein Al Adawy, the third Harun Farocki residency scholarship holder.

A cooperation event with HaFI.

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Godard stopped traveling to foreign countries, his camera must not even drive around much by car.

The film combines enacted scenes and historical material and is about the past and present of Levantkade in Amsterdam’s old harbor (...)

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A discovery from Farocki’s estate will be shown on this occasion.

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.

Jürgen Ebert will present and talk about the last unpublished issue of the magazine, Filmkritik No. 335-336, Nov-Dec 1984, now released on the occasion of "Edit Film Culture!".

With a delay of over 33 years the last unpublished issue of the magazine, Filmkritik No. 335-336, Nov-Dec 1984, will now appear.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.

Nightshift explored the work of women in relation to politics, film, desire, and society.

A reprint of the yearly indexes from 1975 to 1983, supplemented by the the index for 1984 which was still missing.

The titles of Norman's films all hint at the struggle to assert an Afro-American identity in a world shaped by whites.

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.

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In the framework of the "Farocki Now" Academy, the UdK (University of the Arts) Berlin organises a LARP. Roles are still available upon registration.

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.

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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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.

Harun Farocki saw the film in 1971 at the Hamburger Filmschau. In the succeeding years, he worked closely with Engström.

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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.