Summer Term Meetings

Meetings take place on Thursdays at 7pm and are open to all. Texts are circulated prior to the screening and discussion. For further details, please email Chrys Papaioannou at chrys[dot] papaioannou@gmail.com.

5 MAY

Critique de la Séparation
Dir. Guy Debord (France, 1961) 17'


Chronique d'un ete/Chronicle of a Summer 
Dir. Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin (France, 1961) 85'

Reading: Tom McDonough, "Calling from the Inside: Filmic Topologies of the Everyday" Grey Room 26 (Winter 2007): 6-29.

2 JUNE

Dni zatmeniia/Days of Eclipse

Dir. Alexander Sokurov (USSR, 1988) 139'


Julian Graffy, 'Living and Dying in Sokurov's Border Zones' (forthcoming - please email us for a copy)


Fredric Jameson, 'On Soviet Magical Realism' in The Geopolitical Aesthetic (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1992), pp.87-113.


16 JUNE

W.R.- Misterije organizma/W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism  

Dir. Dusan Makavejev (US/Yugoslavia, 1971) 84'

Boris Buden, ‘Behind the Velvet Curtain. Remembering Dušan Makavejev's W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism’, Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context, and Enquiry, Issue 18 (Summer 2008), pp. 118-126.

Spring Term Meetings

Thursday, 20 January 2011

Still Life (2006)

Film: Sanxia haoren/Still Life, Dir. Jia Zhangke. China and Hong Kong, 2006 (111').

Reading: Alain Badiou, 'Part 1 The Place of the Subjective' from Theory of the Subject (London: Continuum, 2009), pp.1-37.

Thursday, 17 February 2011

Film: Playtime, Dir. Jacques Tati. France, 1967 (124').

Reading: Marc Augé, Non Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (London: Verso, 1995): 75-120.
Kristin Ross, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996): 157-196.

Thursday, 7 April 2011

Film: Le fond de l'air est rouge ("Grin Without a Cat"), dir. Chris Marker, France, 1977 (240')

Next MFP: Thursday 9 December, 7pm

Harun Farocki's Images of the World and Inscriptions of War (1989, West Germany) 75m, Col/B&W.

The main reading is:

G. Agamben, "The Witness" in Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive (New York: Zone Books, 1999): 15-40.

Secondary reading:

Gerhard Richter, "Miniatures : Harun Farocki and the Cinematic Non-Event" Journal of Visual Culture 3/3 (2004): 367-371.

Malin Wahlberg, "Inscription and Reframing: At the Editing Table of Harun Farocki" Konsthistorisk tidskrift 73/1 (2004): 15-26.

Previously, we have discussed Deutschland Im Herbst/Germany in Autumn (dir. Böll et al, 1977) and Masculin/Féminin: 15 faits précis/Masculine, Feminine: In 15 Acts (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1966).