Thursday, February 3, 2011

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Berlin Lectures: Andrei Ujica and Friedrich Kittler

As part of the Berlin Film Festival will take place next Sunday in the Renaissance Theater a interesting event place:
The film history
interview of author and filmmaker with the media researcher
Introduction: Joachim Sartorius

Andrei Ujica was Born in 1951 in Romania, since 1981 the writer and filmmaker living in Germany. His films are mounted images of reality, as if the visibility of history reshuffle. Ujica thus reflects the relationship between political power and media in Europe at the end of the Cold War.

video frames of a Revolution (Harun Farocki, together with, 1992) begins the events of the 21 December 1989 one, as the monstrous happened: The speech of the Romanian dictator Ceausescu is disturbed - then the cameras directed towards the sky. From a production of power will be pictures of the beginning of a revolution that turns out to be a coup. Out of the Present (1995) events shows on Earth and in space between May 1991 and March 1992. During the ten months in orbit, the Mir crew to the ground, the collapsing Soviet Union. For its 2010 shown in Cannes autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu Ujica has condensed propaganda footage of the Romanian President to a three-hour Panorama: "The figure of the dictator's ideological I inquire of the historic sign under which the 20 Century was. "

Andrei Ujica since 2001 professor of film at the State College of Design in Karlsruhe since 2002 and founding director of the ZKM Film Institute.

Friedrich Kittler teaches aesthetics and history of the media at the Humboldt University in Berlin. On the basis of the technical media has presented to the language and cultural studies numerous contributions to the theory and history of culture techniques, also on the optical media and the impact of the film on the storage of Scripture monopoly.

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