The Institute for Scientific Film (IWF) in Göttingen aimed at capturing all the movement processes of the world on celluloid. The biological, technical and ethnological films that the IWF produced, archived and distributed worldwide were supposed to be “documents of reality”. Without using commentary, they should make movements visible, storable and re-analyzable at any time. Can some pictures be more real than others? The essay film UNLEARNING FLOW examines both National Socialist prehistory and the legacy of the IWF. It reveals the ideology of the distant, objectifying camera view and also the active white washing of the Institute’s history after World War II.