Joyful Dissent. Filming against. Filming with.

The UDK seminar of Madeleine Bernstorff puts possibilities of filmic dissent up for debate. What parodic and joyful, rigorous and dead serious filmic/political strategies are adequate for countering the erosion of the political? What makes films propagandistic? How free can images be? Is it about examining them anew time and again? And where can we find the cinema of social and political interventions? "The essential aspect of politics lies in the modes of subjectivization based on dissent, which posits the difference between society and oneself … Consensus is the reduction of politics to the police." (Jacques Rancière) Films by Vera Chytilová, Robert Nelson, États généraux du cinéma, Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Joyce Wieland, Hellmuth Costard, Thomas Struck, Cristina Perincioli, Zelimir Zilnik, Peter Krieg, Marcel Broodthaers, Vlado Kristl, Heynowski + Scheumann, Ken Jacobs, Karl Gass, and Stefan Hayn.