"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")
Projects / Publication
A booklet on Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's work as curators and filmmakers.
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). [...]
“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. [...] ”
“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)
"This is about at least four women. One of them fictional; all the others, infected by this fiction."
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The issue is dedicated to Harun Farocki's only directorial work for the theatre.
A cooperation with the Berliner Gazette.
An insight into the research behind Farocki’s installation Comparison via a Third and its cinematic version In Comparison
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...
The first HaFI book in collaboration with the Viennese publishing house Synema.
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.
HaFI publications in Korean and Turkish
November 16th, 2020 — Projects / Publication
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.
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 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.
The current issue 101 on “Navigation Beyond Vision” is now online.
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 (...).
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Godard stopped traveling to foreign countries, his camera must not even drive around much by car.
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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.
A reprint of the yearly indexes from 1975 to 1983, supplemented by the the index for 1984 which was still missing.
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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.
Documentary filmmaker Gerhard Benedikt Friedl describes Helmut Färber's method of teaching film history.
Letters exchanged between Harun Farocki, Peter Weiss and Westdeutscher Runfunk (WDR): A glimpse at the production history of "On Display: Peter Weiss".
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.