Since 2016, the Arsenal has been cooperating with the "Film Culture: Archiving, Programming, Presentation" master programme of the Goethe University in Frankfurt and, since 2017, with the Nigerian Film Corporation as part of the research project Archive außer sich, which deals with film cultural heritage and its archives. The project has now given rise to a new study course: Starting this winter semester, the University of Jos, together with the Nigerian Film Corporation, which includes the National Film Institute and the National Film, Video and Sound Archive, is offering the first master's programme in film archiving and film culture in Africa. 25 students began their studies in Film Culture & Archival Studies in Jos on 22 October.

The next edition of our monthly series Filmmakers' Choice will be presented by Clarissa Thieme on October 14: The films by “DDR – ohne Titel” and “WOEST – ohne Titel” refer to the upheaval of 1989. They speak from different geographical and temporal standpoints, as the countries they are listed under indicate. The first ones, shot in East Germany in the “hot” autumn before the fall of the Wall, are ways of approaching the social upheaval at whose center the filmmakers found themselves. LEIPZIG IM HERBST (East Germany 1989) and IN BERLIN 16.10.–04.11.89 (East Germany 1989) are collections of materials that document a search for orientation in a social context that can no longer be understood. “WOEST – ohne Titel” collects the external view of this upheaval, both temporally and geographically. DDR – OHNE TITEL (Germany 1991), FORMER EAST / FORMER WEST (USA 1994) and DIE DDR HAT ES NIE GEGEBEN / APPELL (Germany 2016) are ghost trips – though East Germany, which still appears like a phantom despite having ceased to exist, and through a new Germany of an unclear nature.