January 13: Jacques Rancière: And Cinema Goes On

"Cinema goes on: That also means that cinema remains a privileged form of interpreting our world." (J. R.) The volume Jacques Rancière: Und das Kino geht weiter (Jacques Rancière: And cinema goes on, August Verlag) compiles essays that Rancière wrote for the Cahiers du Cinéma and Trafic at the end of the 90s. Examining contemporary directors who include Kiarostami, Kitano und Costa, as well as classic auteurs such as Bresson, Ford or Chaplin, Rancière creates a political film aesthetics that unfolds around the notion of fiction. "A utopia of the re-found childhood of an art is manifest in Kitano's cinema." HANA-BI (Takeshi Kitano, Japan 1997) will also be screened.

A book presentation with Gertrud Koch (FU Berlin), Maria Muhle (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) and the publishers Sulgi Lie and Julian Radlmaier.