Since its founding in September 2015, the Haroun Farocki Institut (HaFI) has been working as a platform for researching the late filmmaker Haroun Farocki’s visual and discursive practice and as a flexible structure for new projects that analyze past, present and future image cultures.
Its goal is to develop theoretical and visual work which build on the ideas of Farocki’s cinematic praxis, including amongst others: the principles and procedures of the essay film, the Marxist analysis of images and the activation of images for genuine visual research. These principles form the basis upon which the HaFI conceives and carries out its own projects.