{"id":12858,"date":"2026-05-28T13:25:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=12858"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:41:17","slug":"forensic-truth-regimes","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/veranstaltungen\/forensic-truth-regimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Forensic Truth Regimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Discussion within the event series \u201eVisual Truth Regimes\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Discussion following a screening of the film <em>Revision<\/em> (GER 2012, dir. Philip Scheffner, production: Merle Kr\u00f6ger).<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>with <strong>Ba\u015fak Ert\u00fcr <\/strong>(Goldsmiths) and <strong>Alisa Lebow <\/strong>(University of Sussex)<\/p>\n<p>What are we left with if a case is legally closed but open questions remain? What power does an appeal hold beyond the law? Aesthetic investigations offers the opportunity to revisit a case\u2014even years later\u2014to examine it differently and more closely, and to draw public attention more broadly to it.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Scheffner\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pong-berlin.de\/de\/project\/film\/revision\"><em>Revision<\/em><\/a> (2012) uses the tools of documentary film precisely for this purpose. Based on journalistic, as well as his own research, Scheffner examines the previously little-known case of Grigore Velcu and Eudache Calderar, who were killed at the German-Polish border in 1992 by a group of German hunters. The two undocumented Roma from Romania, who regularly crossed the border to work in Germany, were, according to the hunters\u2019 testimony in court, mistaken for wild animals. Their subsequent acquittal continues to raise legal and social questions regarding accountability and justice to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Together with Ba\u015fak Ert\u00fcr and Alisa Lebow, co-authors of the essay \u201cCountering Forensic Violence: Philip Scheffner\u2019s <em>Revision<\/em>,\u201d (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/worldrecordsjournal.org\/countering-forensic-violence\/\">World Records, Vol. 9, \u201cJust Evidence,\u201d 2025<\/a><\/em>), we will discuss documentary\u2019s counter-forensic potential for a critique of legal processes, and the violence that remains.<\/p>\n<p>Visual truth regimes are intersections of images, knowledge systems, and political (dis)orders. The event series is dedicated to visual, aesthetic, and artistic investigations of evidence\u2014and how these take effect in the realms of law, the media, and in relation to forms of violence.<\/p>\n<p>The event is part of the series \u201cVisual Truth Regimes,\u201d organized by Laliv Melamed (Goethe University Frankfurt, TFM), Felix Trautmann (HBK Braunschweig \/ Institute for Social Research), and Franziska Wildt (Institute for Social Research).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event explores how documentary film and aesthetic investigations can reopen unresolved questions of justice and accountability by revisiting the 1992 killing of two Romanian Roma men at the German-Polish border and examining the counter-forensic potential of visual media to critique legal violence and truth regimes. It is part of the series \u201cVisual Truth Regimes,\u201d organized by Laliv Melamed (Goethe University Frankfurt, TFM), Felix Trautmann (HBK Braunschweig \/ Institute for Social Research), and Franziska Wildt (Institute for Social Research).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[36,104],"tribe_events_cat":[436],"class_list":["post-12858","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-film","tag-podiumsdiskussion","tribe_events_cat-visual-truth-regimes","cat_visual-truth-regimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12864,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12858\/revisions\/12864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12858"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=12858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}