Upside-down worlds. Disorders of the film

2016

It is not only in the social and political world, but also in the arts, that procedural orders emerge time and again that provide a standard for the production and reception of corresponding works for a while – albeit often only for a short time – and are in greater or lesser tension with the normative conditions of the respective societies. This also applies to the development of feature films. Every single one of these films is created – and thus stands – in the context of genres and their conventions, to which it relates even and especially when it breaks with them. The lecture series is dedicated to these upheavals in the form of cinematic design. It demonstrates how innovative films can invert the hitherto familiar worlds of film. Selected examples will be used to demonstrate and discuss how they disrupt established orders of narrative and at the same time shake and question the order of life outside the cinema.

Dates

April 29, 2016, 7 pm
Heiner Goebbels (Justus Liebig University Giessen)
Alain Robbe-Grillet and the empty center
L’Année dernière à Marienbad by Alain Resnais (F-I 1961)

May 13, 2016, 7 p.m.
Lorenz Engell (Bauhaus University Weimar)
Who lives, disturbs. Symbolic and imaginary dis/order of the film
Swimming Pool by François Ozon (F 2003)

May 27, 2016, 7 p.m.
Josef Früchtl (University of Amsterdam):
Cinema as humane art
Close-Up by Abbas Kiarostami (IRN-F 1990)

July 8, 2016, 7 p.m.
Verena Lueken (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt am Main)
Woman at the wheel, that will be expensive
Quentin Tarantino’s female tin pirates in Death Proof (USA 2007)

Museum of Modern Art
Domstraße 10
60311 Frankfurt am Main

Organized by Angela Keppler and Martin Seel

Free admission, without registration

Organizer: Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” with the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main