Fragile cooperations: Production crises in cinema

Lecture series “Cinema”

The film series takes the diagnosis of a “fragility of normative orders” as an opportunity to examine the crisis nature of such orders in the microcosm of the actors involved in the production of films. This is done using the example of feature films that deal with the failure or miscarriage of such productions in fictional and documentary forms. The production of feature films is visualized as a cooperative project with considerable potential for conflict and a highly uncertain outcome. What happens during the planning and realization of film productions proves to be a theatrum mundi on a small scale, in which the dissonant interplay of forces of the larger world is reflected. The exhibition explores how the susceptibility to crisis of creative processes manifests the polarity of integration and disintegration in social conditions. The presentation of each film will be introduced by a lecture, followed by an opportunity for discussion.

MUSEUM MMK FOR MODERN ART
Domstraße 10
60311 Frankfurt am Main

The event is open to the public. Admission is free

Organization: Prof. Dr. Angela Keppler (Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” and Professor of Media Sociology at the University of Mannheim), Prof. Dr. Christoph Menke(Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” and Professor of Practical Philosophy with a focus on Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law at Goethe University) and Prof. Dr. Martin Seel (Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” and Professor of Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)

Program:

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 19:00
Fragile temporalities
Prof. Dr. Lisa Gotto (University of Vienna)
Planned film program: Icíar Bollaín, También la Illuvia(And Then the Rain), MEX/ESP/F 2010

Tuesday, June 4, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Films about films that don’t exist: The Un-Making-Of a Don Quixote Adaptation
Prof. em. Dr. Hans Jürgen Wulff (Kiel)
Planned film program: Keith Fulton / Louis Pepe, Lost in La Mancha, USA 2002 (OV)

Tuesday, June 25, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
The comedy of the crisis. Cooperation à la Hollywood
Prof. Dr. Christiane Voss (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
Planned film program: Robert Altman, The Player, USA 1992

Tuesday, 9 July 2019, 19:00
After Tabernas!
Prof. Dr. Diedrich Diederichsen (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Planned film program: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte, D 1971

Organizer: Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”

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