Stefanie Schulte Strathaus is co-director of Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art (with Milena Gregor and Birgit Kohler). From 2006-2021 she was head of the Berlinale section Forum Expanded which she co-founded together with Anselm Franke. Schulte Strathaus has curated a number of film programmes, retrospectives, and exhibitions including “Who says concrete doesn’t burn, have you tried? West Berlin Film in the ’80s” (with Florian Wüst in 2006) and “Live Film! Jack Smith! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World” (with Susannne Sachsse and Marc Siegel in 2009). In 2011, she launched the ongoing project Living Archive – Archive Work as a Contemporary Artistic and Curatorial Practice; she, Bettina Ellerkamp, and Jörg Heitmann also founded the Film Feld Forschung (Film Field Research) project at the silent green Kulturquartier. She currently curates the collaborative project Archive außer sich which resulted in the foundation of the archive festival Archival Assembly. She is on the boards of the Harun Farocki Institut, NAAS (Network of Arab Alternative Screens), and the masters program Film Culture at the University in Jos/Nigeria.