ABSTRACT
A translation of extended extracts from previously unpublished journals kept by Antje Ehmann during the project workshops held in multiple cities worldwide between December 2011 and April 2014. Ehmann’s account gives readers a sense of how the hundreds of videos now comprising the project’s archive came into existence as the product not only of two-week tutorial workshops on the art and craft of documentary film-making in fifteen cities worldwide, but also of an exceptional set of human and institutional relationships: between Farocki and Ehmann as a remarkably symbiotic pair of artistic collaborators; between them, workshop participants in fifteen countries, and the local landscapes of the workshop cities; and between Farocki and Ehmann, the project, and numerous representatives of Germany’s premier international cultural agency, the Goethe-Institut.
