Exprmntl 4 Knokke (1968) by Claudia von Alemann and Reinold E. Thiel
Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 7:00 pm
Remembering Harun Farocki
Alternative Visions — Program 6
Presented in association with Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Admission: $18 General / $12 Cinematheque Members
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Alternative Visions
September 9–November 18, 2026
This fall BAMPFA’s long-running annual series of historical and contemporary experimental film includes the work of dozens of artists across ten programs, beginning with a program of cinematic investigations into automation and AI with Gibbs Chapman in person. The series continues into November with a program of films made by members of the Oakland-based Black Hole Collective Film Lab. Brydie O’Connor is in person with her archival portrait of queer experimental film pioneer Barbara Hammer. The late Marjorie Keller’s intimate 16mm films have a rare screening to mark the publication of a new book about her work. Artist Naeem Mohaiemen presents and discusses A Missing Can of Film (2025) in conjunction with BAM’s exhibition Private Frontiers. A selection of works made by COUSIN collective artists, including Sky Hopinka’s 2017 consideration of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest and Lindsay McIntyre’s film about caribou and lichen—made using those materials in the photographic process—screen with Lebanese artist Christophe Katrib’s This Dissonance (2024). Harun Farocki’s influential 2003 essay film War at a Distance and Gazan artist Mahmoud Alhaj’s recent videos examine how perception can be limited in the context of war and/or conflict. (Kate MacKay, Film Curator)
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Alternative Visions, program 6: Remembering Harun Farocki
Introduction: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
Stefanie Schulte Strathaus shares a new restoration completed by Arsenal Filminstitut of Exprmntl 4 Knokke, which sheds light on the 4th International Experimental Film Festival, held in the Belgian seaside resort of Knokke. In addition to clips from the films, Claudia von Alemann and Reinold E. Thiel’s documentary captures the parallel events, spontaneous performances, happenings and protest actions that took place at the festival. It includes footage of Harun Farocki, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Shirley Clarke and Holger Meins, among others. Schulte Strathaus, who serves on the Harun Farocki Institut’s board, will also share three short films by Farocki from this same period and speak about his political activism.
SCREENING: Exprmntl 4 Knokke (1968) by Claudia von Alemann and Reinold E. Thiel (West Germany); DCP, B&W, French, German and English with English subtitles, 42 minutes. Source: Arsenal Filminstitut. White Christmas (1968) by Harun Farocki (West Germany); digital, B&W, German intertitles with English subtitles, 3 minutes. Source: Harun Farocki GbR. The Words of the Chairman (Die Worte des Vorsitzenden) (1969) by Harun Farocki (West Germany); DCP, B&W, German with English subtitles, 3 minutes. Source: Harun Farocki GbR. Inextinguishable Fire (Nicht löschbares Feuer) (1969) by Harun Farocki (West Germany); digital, B&W, German with English subtitles, 25 minutes. Source: Harun Farocki GbR.
TRT: 73 minutes