Volker Pantenburg

Volker Pantenburg is a German film scholar and professor at the University of Zurich. He has previously taught at institutions including the University of Münster, Bauhaus University Weimar, and the Free University of Berlin. His research interests encompass essayistic film practices, experimental cinema, and the intersection of cinema and museum contexts. Pantenburg has authored several influential works, including Einfachheit ohne Vereinfachung. Zur Praxis Harun Farockis (Diaphanes, 2024), Aggregatzustände bewegter Bilder (August Verlag, 2022), Farocki/Godard. Film as Theory (Amsterdam University Press, 2015, translation of Film als Theorie), Ränder des Kinos. Godard – Wiseman – Benning – Costa (August Verlag, 2010/2014), and Film als Theorie. Bildforschung bei Harun Farocki und Jean-Luc Godard (2006), most of which are available through open access. He is also a co-founder of the Harun Farocki Institute in Berlin.