BLUT OHNE BODEN – BODEN OHNE BLUT
film series selected Slavoj Žižek on the notion of migration (11.6. – 3.7.2004)

opening lecture by Slavoj Žižek
Wednesday, 9.6.2004, 7pm

The antagonism – “good” nomadic, shifting, “deterritorialized” subject versus “bad” subject fixed on his ethnic/religious/sexual identity – dominates our ideological space. However, the main message of our late-capitalist experience is that we cannot simply trust these coordinates. First and foremost, a radical “deterritorialization” of subjectivity in which even the innermost markers of our identity “melt into thin air”(Marx), is the elementary feature of today’s global capitalism which fully adopted the logic of the erratic excess [...] This fact compels us to question the fashionable celebration of nomadic or »hybrid« subjectivity: to cover with the same notion a poor farmer forced into emigration because of a local ethnic war or devastating economic crisis and a member of the »symbolic class« (academic, journalist, artist, art manager) constantly moving between cultural capitals amounts to the same obscenity as equating starvation with dieting to loose weight. [...]” (Slavoj Žižek)

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Lamerica (Gianni Amelio) I 1994, 115 min, DF
The definitive film about the migration crisis that followed the disintegration of Really Existing Socialism: in a kind of Benjaminian Dialektik im Suspens, the present longing for the promised land of Italy overlaps with the Italian longing for America.
Fr., 11.6., 19 Uhr

Das blaue Licht (Leni Riefenstahl) D 1932, 72 min, OF
Is Junta, the lone and wild mountain girl, not an outcast who almost becomes the victim of a pogrom by the villagers – a pogrom which cannot but remind us of the anti-Semitic pogroms? Perhaps, it is not an accident that Bela Balasy, Leni's lover at that time who co-wrote the scenario with her, was a Marxist.
Fr., 25.6., 19 Uhr

Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rossellini) I 1953, 82 min, OmdU
The ruins of the Italian past as serve the background of the rich American couple whose marriage is in crisis: the ruins retain their utter ambiguity, their material presence constantly undermining their »obvious« metaphoric meaning (a symbol of the ruined relationship of the couple).
Sa., 26.6., 19 Uhr

Das Schweigen (Ingmar Bergman) S 1963, 91 min, DF
Bergmann's true masterpiece: the train journey of two sister with a small son, with the stop in a nondescript Eastern European country whose atmosphere of sensual decay and sexual corruption provides a perfect »objective correlative« to the malaise of modern life.
So., 27.6., 19 Uhr

Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais) F/J 1959, 89 min, OmeU
The love encounter of a dislocated couple in the 1950s Hiroshima (a French woman escaping the trauma of her German soldier-lover; a Japanese marked by the trauma of Hiroshima) deploys the axiom of love as the magic Event which overcomes even the most shattering historical traumas.
Fr., 2.7., 19 Uhr

Der siebte Kontinent (Michael Haneke) A 1989, 107 min, OF
Is the ultimate »migration« not the journey to death itself? Haneke stages it directly as a planned journey of a family whose members decide to commit a collective suicide: no pathetics, just a cold rational execution of the decision...
Sa., 3.7., 19 Uhr

Project Migration – an initiative project of the

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