“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)
Tag: Arsenal
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.
HaFI participation with a panel dedicated to Farocki and his TV collaboration with the WDR.
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.
See German post.
September 27th, 2019 — Archive / Showcase The Public Screening is now being continued with a curated program by Stefan Pethke.
Premiere of the film and material unearthed in the archive of the Harun Farocki Institute will be shown beforehand.
Wild's first longer film is set between the fronts of the 1980s revolution in the Philippines (...).
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 The film diverges from traditional ethnographic work and is instead a multi-layered media translation (...).
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.
The film combines enacted scenes and historical material and is about the past and present of Levantkade in Amsterdam’s old harbor (...)
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.
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.
Tonight: Opening of the retrospective of Harun Farocki's work for cinema and television at Kino Arsenal.
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.
A mythological road movie, a squatter and hacker story.
Harun Farocki saw the film in 1971 at the Hamburger Filmschau. In the succeeding years, he worked closely with Engström.
See German post.
November 30th, 2016 — Projects / Research