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.

Join us on June 19th for an international symposium on Image Operations in the Security Zone, and meet our guests speakers Caren Kaplan, Donato Montanari, Noam Goldway, and Yana Thönnes. The symposium is part of the Image Operations minicluster and is open to the public.

The Graduiertenkolleg "Configurations of Film" is pleased to invite you to this screening of short films.

Join us on May 3rd for a lecture by Dr. Maayan Amir on extraterritorial images and the visual construction of the legal. The lecture is part of the Image Operations minicluster and is open to the public.

The Graduiertenkolleg "Configurations of Film" would kindly like to invite you to this collaborative screening-event with our special guest Romie.

In February 2019 the Mini-Cluster "Site-shifts" visited the 69th Berlin International Film Festival.

By discussing two of Rebecca Schneider´s texts ('A Small History ((of)) Still Passing' and 'That the Past May Yet Have Another Future: Gesture in the Times of Hands Up') the scholar invites us to rethink visual culture in terms of performativity and temporality and challenges to re-evaluate traditional codes of communication by appealing ethically to our 'response-ability' in contemporary political-authoritarian contexts.

The Kolleg is joined by Anna McCarthy (NYU Tisch) and Norman M. Klein (CalArts) in partaking a field trip to Frankfurt airport.

On November 22, 2018 our Mercator Fellow Marie-Aude Baronian spoke about "The Cinematic Life of Material Objects."

Members of the mini-cluster "Following Objects" hopped between coffee at the café Grammatikoff (2€) and the cinema at Dellplatz in Duisburg.

In October, the Graduiertenkolleg’s Mini-Cluster “Following Objects“ spent many hours in the cinemas of Leipzig.

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

On September 20, 2018 our Mercator Fellow Benoît Turquety spoke about "Medium, Format, Configuration: The Displacements of Film."

Cooperation with the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf - Lecture series in the framework of the exhibition “Fantastic Worlds, Perfect Illusions: Filmic Visual Effects."

On July 4, 2018 our Mercator Fellow John Mowitt talked about "Tracks from the Crypt."