Silent Desire, Burning Passion, Bodies in Motion
Lecturer
Date
- 07 July 2006–08 July 2006 Wien (Österreich) (Filmmuseum Wien)
Keywords
Arts, Media Research, Psychoanalyse
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Description
Silent desire, Burning passion, bodies in motion A Collage of Film and Text What attracts us? What carries us away? From sublime attraction to passionate transports, and within the framework of neuroscience and psychoanalysis, a multiplicity of relationships are presented and examined in text and film. The programme opens with excerpts from Hollywood melodramas which feature the sublime yet timeless bodies of formal perfection. These perfect bodies—undoubtedly objects of attraction—will be successively contrasted with the cinematic physical body, particularly how it has been thematised in avant-garde cinema. Subtly, the focus will shift from motivist to material, from manifest to latent and from culturalism to brutism as the real origin of libidinous energy. In the cinematic body a motif suppressed by mainstream films returns, which inaugurates the ecstatic moments of of the figurativity.
Title of Event
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