Projects / Event
Terms and Conditions: Public Screening “Peripheral Territories”, Dec. 20, 2024, Cinéma Spoutnik, Geneva

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

December 2nd, 2024 — Projects / Event
Presentation, Discussion and Screening: FOAM OF WORLDS by Anna Marziano, December 8, 2024, silent green, Berlin

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

November 26th, 2024 — Projects / Event
Terms & Conditions: “The Operational Image Before the Law,” panel with Katja Müller-Helle and Noam M. Elcott, October 31, 2024, 2.30 pm, University of Zurich

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

October 22nd, 2024 — Projects / Event
Festival: “Kin City,” from Berliner Gazette, Oct.17–19, ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics in Berlin

A cooperation with HaFI.

October 11th, 2024 — Projects / Event
Film Program: Terms and Conditions #02: Oct. 15 & 16, 2024, 8 pm, Arsenal Cinema, Berlin

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.

October 11th, 2024 — Projects / Event
Film Program: Terms and Conditions #01, September 23 & 24, 2024, 8 pm, Arsenal Cinema, Berlin

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.

September 17th, 2024 — Projects / Event
Terms and Conditions: Talk: Listening to Ice, The Future of Survival@Locarno Film Festival, August 15, 2024

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.

August 13th, 2024 — Projects / Event
HaFI Presents #07: Franz Wanner. Mind the Memory Gap, July 5, 2024, Arsenal Cinema, Berlin

See post in German.

June 7th, 2024 — Projects / Event
Panel Discussion: Terms and Conditions: Colonial legacies, artistic futures, June 25, 2024, Berlin Artistic Research Programme

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

June 7th, 2024 — Projects / Event
Presentation and Discussion: Terms and Conditions: with Susan Schuppli, June 19, HGB Leipzig

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. [...]

June 6th, 2024 — Projects / Event
Start event: Terms and Conditions: April 10 & 11, 2024, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB)

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.

April 4th, 2024 — Projects / Event
Launch: HaFI 019: “What I Do Not Recognize Yet, Now at This Very Moment” by Natascha Sadr Haghighian, December 16, 2023, Hopscotch Events (Gerichtstrasse), Berlin

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 [...].

December 12th, 2023 — Projects / Event
Book Launch: “Operational Images. From the Visual to the Invisual” by Jussi Parikka, December 6, 2023, transmediale Studio

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. [...]

December 1st, 2023 — Projects / Event
HaFI Presents #06:
 TARDO AGOSTO, Filippo Foscarini & Federico Cammarata, December 4, 2023, Arsenal Cinema

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

November 28th, 2023 — Projects / Event
Harun Farocki Residency with Filippo Foscarini: Multimedia Presentation & Discussion with Jošt Franko, November 26, 2023, silent green, Berlin

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

November 21st, 2023 — Projects / Event
Reading: Harun Farocki: Writings, Duisburger Filmwoche, November 10, 2023,

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November 6th, 2023 — Projects / Event
HaFI Presents #05:  Domietta Torlasco: Overseen and Overlooked, October 17, 2023, Arsenal Cinema

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

October 12th, 2023 — Projects / Event
[Conference and Text Series]: ALLIED GROUNDS by Berliner Gazette, October 5–7, 2023, House of Democracy and Human Rights, Berlin

A cooperation with the Berliner Gazette.

May 24th, 2023 — Projects / Event
[Event]: Film Undone. Elements of a Latent Cinema, July 20-23, 2023, silent green & Arsenal Cinema, Berlin

A cooperation with HaFI.

May 24th, 2023 — Projects / Event
Retrospective: The Films of Mantas Kvedaravičius, Nov 18/19 and Dec. 2/3, 2022, Arsenal Cinema, Berlin

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.

November 14th, 2022 — Projects / Event
[Conference]: AFTER EXTRACTIVISM, Oct. 13-15,2022, House of Democracy and Human Rights, Berlin

A cooperation with the Berliner Gazette.

October 11th, 2022 — Projects / Event
HaFI participation to the Steirischen Herbst, Sep 22 – Oct. 16, 2022, Graz, Austria

With an exhibition and a panel discussion.

September 16th, 2022 — Projects / Event
[video repository and discursive program]: Taught to Travel (T2T) by Moad Musbahi and partners in Dakar, Alexandria (on-site) and Beirut, Berlin (online), ongoing

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

August 10th, 2022 — Projects / Event
[Film Screening and Discussion]: UNREADABLE FUTURE by Hans Carlsson, August 20, 2022, silent green, Berlin-Wedding

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.

August 3rd, 2022 — Projects / Event
[Exhibition]: Drawing the Line by Cathy Lee Crane, July 15-24, 2022, Gerichtstr. 45, Berlin-Wedding

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.

July 4th, 2022 — Projects / Event
[Film program]: (X)-trACTION with Cathy Lee Crane, July 29, 2022, Arsenal Cinema

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.”

July 1st, 2022 — Projects / Event
[Screening]: Films by Cathy Lee Crane, July 27, 2022, Arsenal Cinema

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

July 1st, 2022 — Projects / Event
[OPEN CALL]: HaFI-Screening Program (X)-trACTION with Cathy Lee Crane, July 29, 2022, Arsenal

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

June 27th, 2022 — Projects / Event
Retrospective Ingemo Engström, June 2 – 19, 2022, Cinema Arsenal, Berlin

“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)

May 24th, 2022 — Projects / Event
[Screenings]: Harun Farocki, April 13 — 5 May 5, 2022, UP Vargas Museum, Manila, Philippines

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...

April 25th, 2022 — Projects / Event
[Online Event Series]: All the Missing Limbs of a Pre/oposition, March 15, 2022

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

March 10th, 2022 — Projects / Event
[Online Event Series]: All the Missing Limbs of a Pre/oposition, February 22, 2022

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

February 15th, 2022 — Projects / Event
[Online Event Series]: All the Missing Limbs of a Pre/oposition, January 25, 2022

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

January 20th, 2022 — Projects / Event
HaFI Screening and Discussion @ “Visible Evidence” Conference , December 15, 2021, 7h30 pm, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt

Showing Skip Norman's ON AFRICA.

December 10th, 2021 — Projects / Event
[Online Event Series]: All the Missing Limbs of a Pre/oposition, December 7 & 14, 2021

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

December 5th, 2021 — Projects / Event
Conference & Workshops: BLACK BOX EAST: “Post-Communist” Laboratories of Globalization, Sep 23-25, 2021

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

October 1st, 2021 — Projects / Event
Book Launch: Pause. Fervour: Reflections on a Pandemic, September 20, 2021, 7-9 p.m.

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

September 14th, 2021 — Projects / Event
Kooperation: Kein Schöner Archiv: Der Elternsprechtag, September 19, 2021, at 6 p.m., Berlin

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

September 14th, 2021 — Projects / Event
Event: RADICAL FILM NETWORK MEETING 2021, August 25-28, 2021, BUFA Atelier Gardens, Berlin

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.

August 18th, 2021 — Projects / Event
Festival: ARCHIVAL ASSEMBLY #1: September 1-8, 2021, Arsenal Cinema & more, Berlin

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.

August 18th, 2021 — Projects / Event
Winter School 2020: SILENT WORKS: The Hidden Labor in AI-Capitalism: Program now online

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

December 14th, 2020 — Projects / Event
Winter School 2020: SILENT WORKS: The Hidden Labor in AI-Capitalism, November 7-28, 2020, Haus der Statistik, Berlin

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

November 4th, 2020 — Projects / Event
Workshop: LABOUR IN A SINGLE SHOT, Oct. 3-Nov. 4, 2020, Berlin & Warsaw

The Open Call runs until September 25, 2020.

September 11th, 2020 — Projects / Event
Event: SILENT WORKS: Berlin als Technopolis, Sep. 23, 2020, Berlin

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

September 11th, 2020 — Projects / Event
Symposium: The Right to a Public – Working with TV Archives, Sep. 23, 2020, Arsenal @ silent green

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

September 11th, 2020 — Projects / Event
HaFI Presents #04: LEAVE ME ALONE, dir. Gerhard Theuring (1971 FRG), March 3, Arsenal Cinema

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

February 28th, 2020 — Projects / Event
HaFI Presents #03: DAS ANDERE KINO, dir. Adolf Winkelmann, Christian Rittelmeyer, (FRG 1969), January 12, Arsenal Cinema

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

January 6th, 2020 — Projects / Event
HaFI Presents #02: HARD SELLING, dir. Harun Farocki, (FRG 1991), November 20, 2019, Arsenal Cinema

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

November 15th, 2019 — Projects / Event
HaFI Presents #01: NIEMANNS ZEIT – EIN DEUTSCHER HEIMATFILM, dir. Marion Schmid/Horst Kurnitzky, (FRG 1985), September 11, 2019, Arsenal Cinema

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

September 2nd, 2019 — Projects / Event
Public Screening #14: HARUN FAROCKI – TAKE TWO, dir. Ingo Kratisch/Lothar Schuster, (G 2019), July 1, 2019, Arsenal Cinema

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

June 28th, 2019 — Projects / Event
e-flux & HaFI Conference [video documentation]: Navigation Beyond Vision, April 5 & 6, 2019, HKW, Berlin

The video documentation is now online.

May 27th, 2019 — Projects / Event
Congress, Academy, Archive viewings: The Whole Life: Archives and Reality, May 19-25, 2019, Dresden

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

May 7th, 2019 — Projects / Event
Public Screening #13: A RUSTLING OF LEAVES: INSIDE THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION, dir. Nettie Wild, May 16, 2019, Arsenal Cinema

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

April 25th, 2019 — Projects / Event
Archive Außer Sich: website online

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.

April 24th, 2019 — Projects / Event
What is radical film? Radical Film Network Meeting Berlin, May 2-5, 2019, silent green: Program online

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

April 24th, 2019 — Projects / Event
e-flux & HaFI Conference: Art After Culture: Navigation Beyond Vision, April 5 & 6, 2019, HKW, Berlin

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

February 27th, 2019 — Projects / Event
Public Screening #12: FOLIE ORDINAIRE D’UNE FILLE DE CHAM (1986, F), Jean Rouch, March 13, 2019, Arsenal Cinema

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

February 27th, 2019 — Projects / Event
Radical Film Network Meeting, May 2-5, 2019, silent green, Berlin: OPEN CALL “What is Radical Film?”

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

January 30th, 2019 — Projects / Event
Public Screening #11: CONTES ET COMPTES DE LA COUR, dir. Éliane de Latour (F 1993), January 9, 2019, Arsenal

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.

January 3rd, 2019 — Projects / Event
Public Screening #10: Le Charbonnier/El-Faham: Mohamed Bouamari, November 1, 2018, Arsenal

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

October 25th, 2018 — Projects / Event
AntiColonial Records: October 25 & 26, 2018, Archive Kabinett, Berlin

A cooperation event with HaFI.

October 23rd, 2018 — Projects / Event
Public Screening #09: Transit Levantkade: Rosemarie Blank: September 7, 2018, Arsenal Cinema

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

August 27th, 2018 — Projects / Event
Peter Lorre Retrospective: Screening and discussion with Felix Hofmann, July 19, 2018, Zeughaus Kino, Berlin

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

July 2nd, 2018 — Projects / Event
Public Screening #08: Emile de Antonio: In the King of Prussia, July 11, 2018, Arsenal

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.

July 2nd, 2018 — Projects / Event
Filmkritik at the Edit Film Culture! festival: Juli 7, 2018, silent green Kulturquartier

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!".

June 30th, 2018 — Projects / Event
Public Screening #07: Robina Rose: Nightshift, May 30, 2018, Arsenal

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

May 25th, 2018 — Projects / Event
Public Screening #06: Skip Norman: selection of films, March 22, 2018, Arsenal

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

March 15th, 2018 — Projects / Event
Public Screening #05: Ingo Kratisch: Logik des Gefühls, January 11, 2018, Arsenal

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.

December 22nd, 2017 — Projects / Event
Farocki Now Academy: Live Action Role Play on October 21, 2017, silent green – OPEN CALL & registration

In 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 — Projects / Event
Program: “Farocki Now: A Temporary Academy”, October 18-21, 2017, HKW & silent green, Berlin

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

September 18th, 2017 — Projects / Event
Harun Farocki Retrospective

Tonight: Opening of the retrospective of Harun Farocki's work for cinema and television at Kino Arsenal.

September 15th, 2017 — Projects / Event
Public Screening #04: Shinsuke Ogawa: Nippon-koku Furuyashiki-mura, July 11, 2017, Arsenal

Political commitment, thirst for research and stamina. A film by Ogawa Productions.

June 26th, 2017 — Projects / Event
Public Screening #03: Claudia von Alemann, Es kommt drauf an, sie zu verändern / Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva, Chircales, May 16, 2017, Arsenal

Factories and families as places of exploitation, which don’t just have to be interpreted but also changed.

May 16th, 2017 — Projects / Event
Public Screening #02: Ann and Eduardo Guedes et al. Rocinante, March 17, 2017, Arsenal

A mythological road movie, a squatter and hacker story.

March 17th, 2017 — Projects / Event
Forum Expanded: Think Film No. 5: Archival Constellations, February 16, 2017, silent green

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.

February 16th, 2017 — Projects / Event
Public Screening #01: Ingemo Engström, Dark Spring, January 7, 2017, Arsenal

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

January 7th, 2017 — Projects / Event
Photo documentation on Peter Weiss and Harun Farocki’s event, October 24, 2016, silent green

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

November 1st, 2016 — Projects / Event
Event: Peter Weiss and Harun Farocki, October 24, 2016, silent green

We were isolated individuals and simultaneously subsumed into a totality* 


October 12th, 2016 — Projects / Event
Farocki Now – A Temporary Academy, October 18-21, 2017, HKW & silent green

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

August 30th, 2016 — Projects / Event