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  • elke marhöfer
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  • Disturbed Ecologies International post-doc at the Kyoto University Graduate School of Global Environment Studies, Japan 2016 – 2020
  • No-Future Farmers Petralia Soprana, 2020
  • Who does the Earth Think It Is? (Becoming Fire) 16mm, 56min., Japan 2020
  • Too Close Too Far 16mm, 21min., Japan 2020
  • Some plants emit sharp crystals … Den Frie, Kopenhagen 2019
  • Natural Farming School Photographs, Japan 2018
  • wild silkworm Video, 15min., Japan 2018
  • Soils_Habit_Plants 16mm, 11min., Japan 2017
  • looking for matsutake Photographs, Japan 2018
  • 20 cups Skulptur, Japan 2018
  • Osaka Turtles — Nuptial 6 Video, 1min., Japan 2018
  • Some plants emit sharp crystals … M.1, Hohenlockstedt 2018
  • Quantum Attentiveness Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe 2017
  • Becoming Extinct (Wild Grass) 16mm, 23 min., Russia 2017
  • Ecologies of Practices and Thinking PhD Thesis 2015
  • Shape Shifting 16mm, 18 min., Japan 2015
  • Primate Colors 16mm, 30 min., Hong Kong 2015
  • prendas – ngangas – enquisos – machines {each part welcomes the other without saying} 16mm, 25 min., Cuba 2014
  • Nobody knows, when it was made and why 16mm film, black & white, no sound, 10 min. 22 sec., England 2012
  • No, I am not a Toad, I am a Turtle! 16mm, 44 min., South Korea 2012
  • Is there something else I’ve lost? 16mm, 34 min., China 2011
  • immigration humans plants animals ghosts (late afternoon confusion) Fei Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai 2010
  • Material for Analyse for Opposition – MAO Manufactura’s Studio, Wuhan 2010
  • Bauern! (Farmers!) Video, 51min., Burkina Faso 2007
  • How could it come to this, Elke? Wasn’t it a long way down? Babette - Bar, Berlin 2008
  • Nuptia 1 – Nuptial 2 – Nuptial 3 16mm, diverse durations, Burkina Faso 2005
  • helle nacht nichten (bright night nothings) Video, color/sound, 19 min. 36sec, Germany/United States/France, 2004
  • Mohammad Ali 16mm film, color/sound, 04 min. 04 sec., Burkina Faso, recorded 2005 completed 2014
  • phantomas entangled by aida SD_Video, 27 min, Sarajevo, Belgrad, Skopje, Pristine, Thessaloniki, 1998/99
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  • Claire Colebrook: Who Does the Earth Think It Is?, 2020
  • Elke Marhöfer and Mikhail Lylov in conversation about Soils-Habit-Plants with Sahar Qawasmi and Nida Sinnokrot, September 2020, online publishing e-flux.com
  • Disturbed Ecologies, International post-doc at the Kyoto University Graduate School of Global Environment Studies, Japan 2016 – 2020
  • No-Future Farmers, 2020
  • Who does the Earth Think It is? (Becoming Fire), 2020
  • Makoto Mochida: I is an-other… Eroticism in Marhöfer and Lylov’s film Soils_Habit_Plants, Berlin: Sternberg Press, [forthcomming]
  • Elke Marhöfer and Mikhail Lylov, Soils_Habit_Plants: A public conversation with Elke Marhöfer and Mikhail Lylov, Berlin: Sternberg Press, [forthcomming]
  • Julia Bee: Filming through the Milieu. Becoming Extinct and the Anthropocene, New York: Routledge, 2020
  • Becoming Extinct (Wild Grass): An Exploration in Ecologies of Extinction and Collaborative Survival in the Southern Russian Steppes and Elsewhere, London: Bloomsbury [forthcoming]
  • Ecologies of Practices and Thinking, PhD Thesis 2015
  • Christoph Brunner: Territories of Transvaluation, Berlin: Archive Books, 2015
  • Yvonne Volkert: Kunst und Ökologie im Zeitalter der Technosphere, 2017
  • Todd Ramón Ochoa: prendas – ngangas – enquisos – machines {each part welcomes the other without saying}, Berlin: Archive Books, 2015
  • Erin Manning: In the Rhythm of Another Relation, Berlin: Archive Books, 2015
  • Jussi Parikka: Media Ecologies, Berlin: Archive Books, 2015
  • Jean-Marie Straub, Elke Marhöfer, Mikhail Lylov: A Thousand Cliffs, Berlin: Archive Books, 2014
  • Tobias Hering: Performing Things, Berlin: Archive Books, 2015
  • Nicolás Guillén Landrián, Stockholm: OEI On Film, 2015
  • Jiyoung Lee: After Life of Mnemosyne Atlas , Berlin: Archive Books, 2015
  • Nobody knows, when it was made and why, Berlin: Archive Books, 2015
  • Anselm Franke: Marvels of the East, Berlin: Archive Books, 2012
  • Lee Bo Hyung: The Misfortune of Pansori and a Story, Berlin: Archive Books, 2012
  • Frederik Svensk: The Ecological Environment of this Film, Berlin: Archive Books, 2012
  • Difference Indifference Anti-difference, Berlin: Archive Books, 2012
  • Fredrik Svensk: Is there something else I’ve lost? A reading, 2012
  • Film Chaos, Göteborg: Paletten, 2012