IMAGE INTERFERENCE
Dates and times
12.11.2024. Maria Mayland (documentary filmmaker)
Screening & talk about the autobiographical documentary film: "Lamarck" (2022)
03.12.2024. Alexander Scholz (Duisburger Filmwoche)
Talk: "Showing documentary films. Watching, talking and reading at the Duisburg Film Week"
10.12.2024. Anna Polze (Ruhr University Bochum)
Lecture & talk: "Unstable documents. How mobile phone videos become evidence"
The lectures are open to the public and will take place from 6 to 8 pm c.t. in room A8 0-001.
Organisation: Jakob Claus & Felix Hasebrink
IMAGE INTERFERENCE
"Image Interference" deals with documentary film in its function as a critical practice. Documentary film has never been merely a sober representation of reality, but today it intervenes with new vehemence in socio-political discourses and opens up an independent, aesthetic space for reflection with moving images, sounds and language. New forms and formats are creatively exploring the classic documentary film's claim to capture real events and translate them into reliable audiovisual representations. The lecture series asks how a contemporary practice of documentary film problematises such a claim: by giving marginalised voices and stories a space, questioning traditional narratives and bodies of knowledge anew, contrasting different perspectives on events and expanding the aesthetic modalities of a representation of reality, its performance and reception.