Residency

The HaFI is a partner institute for one of three residencies sponsored by Goethe-Institut (Living Archive Residency, Film.Feld.Forschung Residency, Harun Farocki Residency) for international artists, film makers, curators, and scholars. Once every year a recipient will spend three months in Berlin at the invitation of the HaFI. Applications are not accepted.

Video: Interview with Anna Marziano

HaFI resident Anna Marziano talks about her film practice and her current film project "Schiuma di mondi."

November 7th, 2024 — 2024
[Eleventh] HaFI residency guest: Anna Marziano

The filmmaker Anna Marziano is a guest of the Harun Farocki Residency, realized in the framework of the research project "Terms and Conditions". A continuation of the collaboration with the Kultur Ensemble Palermo.

September 17th, 2024 — 2024
Panel Discussion: “Sulla frontiera serba” with Filippo Foscarini, June 12, 2024, intercultural film festival “Altre Rive 2024”, Palermo

Filippo Foscarini's project, which is still in the making, was partly researched and realized within the Harun Farocki Residency 2023.

June 6th, 2024 — 2023
Exhibition: “Mind the Memory Gap” by Franz Wanner, Kindl – Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, March 24 – July 14, 2024

In his first solo exhibition in Berlin, Franz Wanner investigates present-day repercussions of the widespread exploitation through forced labor under National Socialism [...]. Franz Wanner is a residency fellow of the Harun Farocki Residency 2023/24.

March 20th, 2024 — 2024
“Kharkiv Calling” by Costa Compagnie, with contributions by Marichka Lukianchuk

"Exactly two years after the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, KHARKIV CALLING takes a look at the different lives of strong, emancipated women and their convictions against the Russian autocratic system that recently had the LGBTQIA+ movement categorized as extremist in December 2023. What values and systems are being defended in Ukraine beyond one's own life and country?" Upcoming performances: 23, 24, 25 February

February 11th, 2024 — Residency / 2022
Open Call: Harun Farocki Residency 2024 with Kultur Ensemble Palermo

Application deadline: January 31.

January 9th, 2024 — 2024
[Thenth] HaFI residency guest: Valentina Zalevksa

A residency in collaboration with Artists at Risk and Goethe-Institut

October 12th, 2023 — 2023
[Ninth] HaFI Resident: Filippo Foscarini

An initiative of Kultur Ensemble Palermo, the Goethe-Institut, the Institut Français, both Palermo, and the Harun Farocki Institut, Berlin.

September 19th, 2023 — 2023
[Eigth] HaFI Residency Guest: Franz Wanner

In collaboration with the Farocki Forum in Zurich and KINDL in Berlin.

February 20th, 2023 — 2023
Continuation of the Farocki Residency with Alina Matochkina

Thanks to a private donation, we can continue the Harun Farocki Residency with Ukrainian filmmaker Alina Matochkina in 2023.

January 15th, 2023 — 2023
[Seventh] HaFI Residency guest: Alina Matochkina

A residency in collaboration with Artists at Risk and the Goethe-Institut.

October 10th, 2022 — Residency / 2022
Continuation of the ad-hoc Residency: Marichka Lukianchuk

From September 2022 to August 2023 as part of the Berlin Senate's "Ad Hoc Fellowship Program."

September 16th, 2022 — Residency / 2022
[talk and screening] Marichka Lukianchuk at Artists at Risk Talks, Floating University, Berlin, August 18, 2022

A talk about her artistic practice during the war and about the dreams of Ukrainians that she collected.

August 16th, 2022 — Residency / 2022
[Interview]: Online magazine “Filmmaker” about the exhibition “Drawing the Line” by Cathy Lee Crane

An interview with Cathy Lee Crane by Lauren Wissot.

July 19th, 2022 — Residency / 2020/22
[Sixth] HaFI Residency guest: Marichka Lukianchuk

Together with Artists at Risk.

May 17th, 2022 — Residency / 2022
HaFI Residency: Cathy Lee Crane in Berlin, June – August 2022

Start of the residency: June 8.

May 16th, 2022 — Residency / 2020/22
[Fifth] HaFI residency guest: Hans Carlsson

For the fifth HaFI residency in collaboration with IASPIS, we have invited Malmö-based artist, curator and writer Hans Carlsson.

October 5th, 2021 — Residency / 2021
[Fourth] HaFI residency guest: Cathy Lee Crane

Experimental filmmaker Cathy Lee Crane (U.S.A.) is the fourth guest of the Harun Farocki Residency.

May 26th, 2020 — Residency / 2020/22
Film: INVISIBLE (2019) by Shirin Barghnavard

An experimental essay documentary film on the concept of “Nationality”.

February 26th, 2019 — Residency / 2017
Online publication: “Harun Farocki: Dialectics of Images” by Ali Hussein Al Adawy

Text excerpts.

February 25th, 2019 — Residency / 2018
Event: Ali Hussein Al Adawy, November 29, 2018, silent green

The presentation "Harun Farocki As A Method" revisits films and artworks from Egypt and the context of the Arab world.

October 25th, 2018 — Residency / 2018
[Third] HaFI residency fellow: Ali Hussein Al Adawy

From the beginning of September we will be welcoming Ali Hussein Al Adawy as the third fellowship holder of the Harun Farocki Residency in Berlin.

August 31st, 2018 — Residency / 2018
Event: Shirin Barghnavard, November 13, 2017, silent green

HaFi presents the film PROFESSION: DOCUMENTARIST, followed by a discussion between Shirin Barghnavard and Constanze Ruhm

November 7th, 2017 — Residency / 2017
[Second] HaFI residency guest: Shirin Barghnavard

For the second Harun Farocki Residency we have invited the Tehran-based Iranian filmmaker and editor Shirin Barghnavard to Berlin for three months.

October 11th, 2017 — Residency / 2017
HaFI 002 [Material]: Kevin B. Lee

Kevin B. Lee about Farocki's working paper "What Ought to Be Done".

February 23rd, 2017 — Residency / 2016
Kevin B. Lee in the Tageszeitung newspaper

See German post.

February 6th, 2017 — Residency / 2016
Presentation: Kevin B. Lee and Chloé Galibert-Laîné, February 6, 2017, FU Berlin

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

January 31st, 2017 — Residency / 2016
Report on the “light-typing lecture” by Kevin B. Lee, January 14, 2017, silent green

A brilliant (and moving) lesson of how to navigate a post-cinema small screen reality.

January 16th, 2017 — Residency / 2016
Event: Kevin B. Lee, January 14, 2017, silent green

Kevin B. Lee will give a „light-typing lecture“ introducing his works and practice.

January 6th, 2017 — Residency / 2016
Residency blog: Launch

The blog of the HaFI residency publishes the immediate and informal experiences made by the HaFI residency fellows.

January 6th, 2017 — Residency / 2016
Kevin B. Lee in the Süddeutschen Zeitung newspaper

See German post.

January 6th, 2017 — Residency / 2016
[First] HaFI residency fellow: Kevin B. Lee

Kevin B. Lee will be the first guest of the Harun Farocki residency from the middle of December onwards

November 30th, 2016 — Residency / 2016