Presentation and Film Screening on Babylonian Confusion in Film
Film Scholar Getrud Koch to Give Lecture on May 20, 2019 in Kino Arsenal Followed by Screening / In Cooperation with the Cinepoetics - Center for Advanced Film Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. No 131/2019 from May 15, 2019 Film studies scholar Getrud Koch from Freie Universität Berlin will discuss the significance of language in film theory in her talk on May 20, 2019 at Kino Arsenal. Her lecture "Sprache und Sprachen - zu den Babylonischen Verwirrungen im Sprachkonzept der Filmtheorie" [Language and Languages - On Babylonian Confusion in Film Theory's Concept of Language] examines how film theorists deal with questions of language: Is film, as an audiovisual medium, a-linguistic, pre-linguistic, or a language all of its own? How do film theorists interpret speaking versus non-speaking characters in films, for example within French philosopher Edgar Morin's theoretical work? After the lecture, the French-Swiss film Adieu au langage (2014) by Jean-Luc Godard and the French film C hronique d'un été (1961) by Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch will be screened. The lecture is free and open to the public. It will be held in German. Tickets for the films can be purchased from Kino Arsenal at their regular prices. The event is part of the Cinepoetics Lectures series put on by the Cinepoetics - Center for Advanced Film Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, and Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, which is organized in cooperation with Kino Arsenal.
