Tag: Volker Pantenburg

“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)

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Why is it that the visible is constantly privileged as something truth-bearing in modernity when, in many cases, it provides very little, or in some cases virtually no information at all? An essay by HANS CARLSSON.

“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)

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

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

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

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.

This issue includes contributions by Gerd Conradt, Carlos Bustamante, Johannes Beringer, Helke Sander, Georg Lehner, Shirikiana and Haile Gerima, Klaus Wyborny, and Brigitte Tast.

A conversation with Carlos Bustamante about Skip Norman.

The documents span several decades and highlight some of the different geographical, cultural, and working contexts in which Skip Norman lived.

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.

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

"[...] 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)

New publication: Volume 4 of Farocki's Writings.

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

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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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.

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

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A working paper by Farocki (1975/76), a commentary by Tom Holert, Doreen Mende and Volker Pantenburg followed by a letter by Peter Nestler.

Material to investigate the present, the future past. Impressions from the archive of the Farocki Institut.

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