The increasing entanglement of art and artists with the law is occurring during a time when the status of the legal has never been more precarious, given the far right’s aim to nullify, hollow out, or simply abolish the judicial apparatus altogether as part of its ongoing evisceration of the postwar liberal democratic order.

This issue is dedicated to the work of filmmaker and artist Ingo Kratisch, who was also responsible for the camerawork in Harun Farocki's films for over three decades.

The times and spaces of colonialisms and neocolonialism are connected in ways that demand forms and languages of analysis that cannot and must not be reduced to those of science and administration.

See post in German.

A workshop on the role of work for artificial intelligence as well as its legal implications for working conditions and copyright.

"We need to believe that what we want to say has happened, because it remains true that only what really exists in us - our style and our time as objects of our knowledge - is worth the effort of being written." (Ingemo Engström in "About Narration")

In exchange with the transversal seminar „Rehearsing the (extra-)jurisdiction of images“ at HEAD Genève / HES-SO.

Marziano's new film project connects to our research project “Terms and Conditions. The Legal Form of Images” [...].

As part of the conference “As We May See: Tracking and Tracing the Image after Farocki” (30.10. – 1.11.2024).

A cooperation with HaFI.

A two-part film program as part of our research project “Terms and Conditions: The Legal Form of Images”. The second part is dedicated to the continuity of coloniality and (neo)colonial legal processes.

A two-part program as part of our research project “Terms and Conditions: The Legal Form of Images”. The first part is dedicated to feminist film practices and the legal framework of moving images.

How can cinematic practices allow us to see and hear wounds of environmental and social injustice in spaces around us? With Susan Schuppli, Nora M. Alter, and Doreen Mende.

How devoid of imagery are "operational images"? With Tom Holert, Ute Holl, Katja Müller-Helle, Simon Rothöhler and Florian Sprenger - See post in German

See post in German.

An event realized in the framework of the artistic research project “Terms and Conditions.”

Susan Schuppli’s work examines material evidence from war and conflict to environmental disasters and climate change, currently focusing on learning from ice and the politics of cold. [...]

A booklet on Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's work as curators and filmmakers.

HaFI's new artistic research project "Terms and Conditions. The Legal Form of Images" will inquire into the largely overlooked (or willfully ignored) legal and paralegal frameworks which increasingly inform the contemporary art and visual culture.

With the volume "Bottroper Protokolle" (Suhrkamp 1968) [...] the television director and doctor of literature, committed feminist and communist Erika Runge (1939–2023) coined the term and practice of "Dokumentarliteratur" (documentary literature). [...]

In her text, Natascha Sadr Haghighian grapples with the dialectics of looking in German structural racism by returning to the how’s and why’s of “not seeing” the NSU [...].

“We tried to get over this disturbance by learning to suppress the perception of racist structures. This in turn made it difficult to develop a commonality, a conversation about the experience of racism. [...] ”

Serving as an extensive guide to a key concept in contemporary art, design, and media theory, "Operational Images" explores the implications of machine vision and the limits of human agency. [...]

Sicily, 2020. In a godforsaken landscape, a sudden change in weather finally marks the end of a suffocating summer. [...]

Foscarini's research focuses on migration in the border areas between Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia [...]

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A film evening together with the theorist and filmmaker Domietta Torlasco.

“The starting point is the relationship between Europe’s prosperity and Africa’s poverty; Europe’s destruction of societies and cultures, and the simultaneous use of Christianity and racial theories as justification for a massive exploitation of the colonized.” (SN)

From the middle of September, critical theorist and filmmaker Domietta Torlasco is in Berlin for a month research stay at the Harun Farocki Institut.

A cooperation with the Berliner Gazette.

A cooperation with HaFI.

"This is about at least four women. One of them fictional; all the others, infected by this fiction."

See German post.

The retrospective explores the work of the Lithuanian filmmaker, anthropologist and archaeologist, whose focus was everyday life lived in the midst of war and in spite of it.

A cooperation with the Berliner Gazette.

With an exhibition and a panel discussion.

T2T is a project initiated by Moad Musbahi with Tom Holert/Harun Farocki Institut.

Presentation of the essay film by Hans Carlsson, realized as part of his Harun Farocki Residency in Berlin in winter of 2021/22 and a talk including Sarat Maharaj and Doreen Mende.

A 14-channel installation by our 4th HaFI residency guest Cathy Lee Crane exploring the history of the western border between the United States of Mexico and the United States of America. EXTENDED OPENING HOURS: Thu. July 28 from 4-7 p.m.; Tue. Aug. 2 from 1-5 p.m.

In (X)-trACTION a collaborative of five media artists, including Cathy Lee Crane, share their latest works to reflect on and maybe even destroy the term “extraction.”

CROSSING COLUMBUS  and the short film ON THE LINE (2010) are distant companion pieces exploring the crossing of lines that mark Mexican territory.

Presented by HaFI on the occasion of Cathy Lee Crane's Harun Farocki Residency in Berlin. Open Call deadline: July 15, 2022

“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)

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...

A series of non-thematic events on Zoom that discursify the inextricability of ‘prepositions’ and propositions...

The issue is dedicated to Harun Farocki's only directorial work for the theatre.

A cooperation with the Berliner Gazette.

A series of non-thematic events on Zoom that discursify the inextricability of ‘prepositions’ and propositions...

A series of non-thematic events on Zoom that discursify the inextricability of ‘prepositions’ and propositions in/from/with each other...

An insight into the research behind Farocki’s installation Comparison via a Third and its cinematic version In Comparison

Showing Skip Norman's ON AFRICA.

A series of non-thematic events on Zoom that discursify the inextricability of ‘prepositions’ and propositions...

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...

Conceived as a year-long project, our partner Berliner Gazette will initiate diverse activities, most importantly a series of texts and a conference.

The first HaFI book in collaboration with the Viennese publishing house Synema.

An online event organized by Journal of Visual Culture and HaFI.

"Kein Schöner Archiv" documents the intangible cultural heritage of the postmigrant society.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Organized by the Berliner Gazette at Haus der Statistik from November 7 - 28, 2020. A cooperation with HaFI.

HaFI publications in Korean and Turkish

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.

Organized by the Berliner Gazette, the Winter School “Silent Works” investigates possibilities for re-inventing ‘the school’ along the lines of ‘the factory.’ 

The Open Call runs until September 25, 2020.

A panel discussion about Berlin vs. Amazon and the Berliner Gazette's Silent Works project, a partnership with HaFI.

HaFI participation with a panel dedicated to Farocki and his TV collaboration with the WDR.

How can, how should these images be looked at? And how do they unsettle the contemporary gaze?

A dossier consisting of documents and images on the "prison images" complex from the HaFI archive, compiled by HaFI.

The issue #109 Navigation Beyond Vision II of the e-flux journal is now online.

A small selection of texts written by the outstanding film critic and translator Frieda Grafe, complemented by a speech from Harun Farocki.

The screening is part of the #Forum 50 series of the Berlinale.

Screening of the three-part WDR program on the “Other Cinema” (1969) - with Harun Farocki among others.

The first presentation of the unfinished film HARD SELLING by Harun Farocki, which was recently found in the HaFI archive.

The Public Screening is now being continued with a curated program by Stefan Pethke.

The booklet is dedicated to the WDR editor Werner Dütsch (1939-2018), who produced numerous films from Harun Farocki.

New publication: Volume 4 of Farocki's Writings.

Premiere of the film and material unearthed in the archive of the Harun Farocki Institute will be shown beforehand.

The current issue 101 on “Navigation Beyond Vision” is now online.

The video documentation is now online.

What can archives do for today’s society? How are historical realities translated into contemporary narratives? Can transformation be archived?

Wild's first longer film is set between the fronts of the 1980s revolution in the Philippines (...).

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 (...).

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.

The meeting focuses on artistic/creative and political/ethical positions within global radical film cultures and video activism movements.

Texts and documents concerning the production context at "Westdeutscher Rundfunk", Cologne

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.

see German post

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 (...)

See German post.

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.

See German post.

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

See German post.

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.

See German post.

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.

See German post.

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.

See German post.

We were isolated individuals and simultaneously subsumed into a totality* 


See German post.

‘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.