Dear BAFTSS Colleagues
Please join us next Tuesday (1st May) at the University of Southampton for the final Research Seminar this semester. Michael Goddard (University of Westminster) will talk about ‘Radical “Minor” Cinemas in the 1970s: Alberto Grifi, Chantal Akerman, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Emile de Antonio and the “Anthropology of Disobedience”’. Full details and abstract are below - this is a free event and open to all. We hope to see many of you there!
Dr Malcolm Cook
Lecturer in Film
School of Humanities
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Full details and abstract:
Tuesday 1st May 2018, 4-6pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Avenue Campus, SO17 1BF
Michael Goddard, University of Westminster
‘Radical “Minor” Cinemas in the 1970s: Alberto Grifi, Chantal Akerman, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Emile de Antonio and the “Anthropology of Disobedience”’
Presented in conjunction with Winchester School of Art
Abstract:
‘Minor cinema’ was a term used independently by both Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to discuss a range of cinematic practices that intervened in different ways in the production of subjectivity, outside of dominant modes of representation. While Guattari applied this especially to films engaged with anti-psychiatry, it was also applicable to a range of radical cinema projects beyond this. This paper will engage with this field of practice in the 1970s by means of a second concept formulated by film and video maker Alberto Grifi, namely the ‘anthropology of disobedience’. This will firstly be examined in his own experimental work, especially the film Anna (1975) and then in examples from the very different filmmakers Akerman, Fassbinder and de Antonio. I will be arguing less for any common style between their works than a shared impulse of producing a minor cinema that combines subjectivity and politics directly, and thereby calls dominant modes of both cinema and power radically into question.
All welcome!
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