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).