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PHILDOC

Art, documentary and the essay film

Still from "He who eats children", Ben Russell, 2016 — He who eats children (Ben Russell, 2016)

Still from "Wundkanal", Thomas Harlan, 1984 — Virtual Round Table 1: What is Documentary?

Still from : Introduction to the end of an argument (Muqaddimah Li-Nihayat Jidal)/ Speaking for oneself… Speaking for others…, Elia Suleiman & Jayce Slalom, 1990 — Introduction to the end of an argument (Muqaddimah Li-Nihayat Jidal)/ Speaking for oneself… Speaking for others… (Jayce Salloum & Elia Suleiman, 1990)

Courtney Stephens Mur Murs — The Decentered Film: Place and Form – Intensive Seminar with Courtney Stephens

Terra Femme M — Terra femme – screening-performance by and with Courtney Stephens

Marwa — Collective film structures – Intensive Seminar with Marwa Arsanios

The Uncertainties of Dialectics

Approaching (J)JA (Gaëlle Boucand)

Still from "Recollection", Kamal Aljafari, 2015 — Lost and Found in Israeli Footage. Kamal Aljafari’s “Jaffa Trilogy” and the Productive Violation of the Colonial Visual Archive

Still from "Ma mer est fragile", Mounir Gouri, 2020 — Ma mer est fragile (Mounir Gouri, 2020)

Images of the Real

Syria in images: from the banalization of horror to the horror of the banal

Still from "Kill them!", abounaddara, 2015 — Abounaddara, Stefan Tarnowski & Victoria Lupton, Artisans of Cinema

Saydnaya : Inside a Syrian Torture Prison

Notes on form

Still from "November", Hito Steyerl, 2004 — Philosophy of the Document. Intensive Seminar with Peter Osborne

How I Learned to Overcome My Fear and Love Arik Sharon (Avi Mograbi, 1997)

Still from "Interface", Harun Farocki, 1995 — Schnittstelle/ Interface (Harun Farocki, 1995)

Still from "Have you ever killed a bear? Or Becoming Jamila", Marwa Arsanios, 2014 — Have you ever killed a bear? Or Becoming Jamila (Marwa Arsanios, 2014)

A Realidade das Imagens

Still de "Breve rencontre avec Jean-Luc Godard", Ghassan Salhab, 2005 — Brève Rencontre avec Jean Luc Godard (ou le cinéma comme métaphore) (Ghassan Salhab, 2005)

Still from "A Model Family in a Model Home", Zoe Beloff, 2015 — Brechtian critiques / A Model Family in a Model Home (Zoe Beloff, 2015)

Still from "An Untimely Film for Every One and No One First and Second Part", Aryen Anastas and Rene Gabri, 2018 — A Conversation between Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri about “An Untimely Film for Every One and No One, First and Second Part” (2018)

Feelings of Revulsion and the Limits of Academic Discourse. A letter to Errol Morris

From a high vantage point

Still from "The House is Black", Forough Farrokhzad, 1962 — Virtual Round Table 2: Politics of Perception

Still from Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour, Alexander Kluge, 1983 — Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour (Alexander Kluge, 1983)

Frames of War (Introduction to the Paperback Edition)

Still from Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte, Alexander Kluge, 1972 — Virtual Round Table 4: Fiction-Documentary

Still from "Na China", Marie Voignier, 2020 — Na China (Marie Voignier, 2020) – film screening & discussion

Still from "Tales of two who dreamt", Andrea Bussmann & Nicolás Pereda, 2016 — Tales of Two Who Dreamt (Andrea Bussmann & Nicolás Pereda, 2016)

Still from The Uprising, Peter Snowden, 2013 — Contemporary Documentary and its critical and political horizons – Intensive Seminar with Dork Zabunyan

Reverse Shot: Approaching Mozambican History.

How to Mediate Reality: Thinking Documentary Film with Adorno and Horkheimer

Still from Memories for a Private Eye, Rania Stephan, 2015 — Rania Stephan: Memories for a Private Eye – Film screening and discussion with the filmmaker

Still from "I would like to visit", Muhammad Nour El-Khairy, 2017 — I would like to visit (Muhammad Nour El-Khairy, 2017)

Still from "The Silent Village", Humphrey Jennings, 1943 — Village, Silenced (Deborah Stratman, 2012)

Sounding the Archives: Sounding the past towards a future living archive

Still from "Effects of Wording", Catarina Simão, 2014 — Effects of Wording (Catarina Simão, 2014)

A Busca Totalizante De Sentido

Still from "Far from Poland", Jill Godmilow, 1984 — Far from Poland (Jill Godmilow, 1984)

Still from "Wendy and Lucy", 2008 — Letter to Herman Asselberghs and Pieter Van Bogaert

Imalogy/ Ontology – talk

On the borders of Fiction. Conversation with Jacques Rancière

Still from "Catch Phrases Catch Images", Harun Farocki, 1985 — Catch Phrases Catch Images – A Conversation with Vilém Flusser (Harun Farocki, 1985)

Aesthetics of Real Abstraction

Still from "There Will Be No More Night", Eléonore Weber, 2021 — Virtual Round Table 3: Trusting Images

Still from "Images of the World, Inscriptions of War", Harun Farocki, 1989 — Virtual Round Table 5: Thinking Images

Still from Re-enacting the Future (Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee, 2019) — Re-enacting the Future (Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin B. Lee, 2019)