Saturday, 9 April 2011

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.