Mercator Fellow Haidee Wasson held a virtual lecture on "Portable Film Formats. Histories of a Dynamic Interface" on June 15, at 6pm (CET).

Our Mercator Fellow Ulrike Bergermann held a virtual lecture on "Property. Colonial Histories and Messages to the Future" on March 29th at 6pm (CET).

Mer­ca­tor Fellow Rebecca Schneider will hold a vir­tual lec­ture on "Shoaling in the Sea of History: Africans Who Fly and the Aesthetics of More-Than-Human Possibility" on Decem­ber 14, 2020, 6pm.

Mercator Fellow Shane Denson held a virtual lecture on "post-cinematic bodies" on November 23, 2020.

The conference aims to explore the groundwork for theorizing implicit epistemic templates configured by film forms and techniques. It is an attempt to expose inconspicuous cinematic performers shaping daily activities and modes of observation, especially where one least expects to encounter films.

On February 10, Edmond (Edo) Ernest dit Alban will give a talk on "Recycling Practices in the Japanese Anime Industry," raising the question what happens when the mobility of moving images joins the daily pedestrian motion of fan communities?

On February 5, author and curator Joshua Simon will give a talk on "Metastability" at the MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST.

On December 16, 2019 Dan Streible (NYU Cinema Studies / Orphan Film Symposium) will give a talk on "Orphan Film Historiography: Newsreel Outtakes as Source and Method."

On November 25, 2019 our Mercator Fellow Zach Blas will give a public talk on "Informatic Opacity and The Cage of Information."

The Graduiertenkolleg invites you to a special audiovisual installation of Jean-Luc Godard’s latest film Le livre d’image.

The Graduiertenkolleg “Configurations of Film” invites you to take part in our screening series “Magnifying Mondays”.

Goethe University's Graduiertenkolleg “Configurations of Film” is co-organizing the Symposium "Playback: Genealogies of Interactivity" with Concordia University in Montreal.

On Monday, July 15, 2019, our Mercator Fellow Pepita Hesselberth will speak about “Towards a Politics of Withdrawal?” The public talk commences at 6 p.m. (c.t.) in Room 1.811 of the Casino Building at Goethe University Frankfurt.

The Graduiertenkolleg “Configurations of Film” would kindly like to invite you to this collaborative screening event with our special guest, the artist and filmmaker Zachary Formwalt.

This two-day conference retreat investigated frames of perspective that redirect our attention away from what we think we have to look at in order to look, initially at least, somewhere else altogether.