The Project

The Critical Film & Image Hub is a project at the Research Centre on Antigypsyism (RCA) at Heidelberg University. An interdisciplinary team investigates the mechanisms of visual and media antigypsyism and makes antigypsyist narratives, motifs and aesthetic patterns visible. Through educational materials and anti-discriminatory counterstrategies, the Hub promotes critical media literacy and a reception and production of visual media that is critically aware of antigypsyism. 

Over the course of eight years, an international network of experts in the field will be established, quality standards will be set, and benchmarks for analysis and intervention will be defined. As a nationally and internationally recognised centre for the critique of antigypsyism in visual culture, the Film Hub will make its expertise available to the media, politics and society and provide impetus for change.

The project is part of the ‘Cooperation Network against Antigypsyism’ in the federal programme ‘Live Democracy!’ of the German Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMBFSFJ) since January 2025.