DAVID RODOWICK IN LONDON: SCREENINGS AND TALKS AT BIRKBECK, LUX, AND QUEEN MARY

David Rodowick will be doing three events in London in the next few weeks. Here are some details: 

1. Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image
Saturday 21st November, 2015
2.00pm-5.00pm
‘Film and video work by David Rodowick: screening and conversation’
Birkbeck Cinema, School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
Free entry, booking essential
 
BIMI is delighted to welcome film-theorist and philosopher David Rodowick, Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, who will present and discuss a selection of his prize-winning film and video works.
 
Known primarily for his work in critical theory, Rodowick is also an accomplished experimental filmmaker, video artist, and curator. Rodowick’s moving image works are primarily concerned with process and performance in ways that explore fluid relations between stillness and movement, figuration and abstraction. Although conceptual in nature, they embrace affect, through their hypnotic rhythms and a haunting, painterly beauty.
 
Rodowick’s most recent books are Philosophy’s Artful Conversation (Harvard University Press, 2014) and Elegy for Theory (Harvard University Press, 2014), which complete the trilogy that began with The Virtual Life of Film (Harvard University Press, 2007). 

To attend this event, please register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-and-video-work-by-david-rodowick-screening-and-conversation-tickets-18531851266
  
2. LUX Artists’ Moving Image
Monday 30th November, 2015
7:00pm 
LUX / MRes Public Lecture: ‘D. N. Rodowick: Harun Farocki's Liberated Consciousness’
LUX, 3rd Floor 18 Shacklewell Lane, London E8 2EZ

In this lecture, D. N. Rodowick will survey Harun Farocki's critical life in images by analysing work from three distinct periods of his career, including landmarks such as Inextinguishable Fire (1968), Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1988), and Serious Games I-IV (2010). Looking at this work in the context of critical theory, Rodowick argues that Farocki offers us a philosophy and ethics of the image.

Having taught at Yale University until 1991, Rodowick began the film studies program there. After studying cinema and comparative literature at the University of Texas, Austin, and Université de Paris 3, he obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Iowa in 1983. Rodowick subsequently taught at the University of Rochester and at King's College, University of London, where he founded the film studies program and the Film Study Centre. Rodowick has also been an award-winning experimental filmmaker and video artist. In 2002, he was named an Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He is also Director of Graduate Studies for Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University.

LUX Mres Art: Moving Image Public Lecture Series is an ongoing series of presentations by key thinkers on contemporary moving image practice, sponsored by the LUX / Central Saint Martins MRes Art: Moving Image programme. 

To attend this event, please register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lux-mres-public-lecture-d-n-rodowick-harun-farockis-liberated-consciousness-tickets-19357111642


3. Queen Mary, University of London
Thursday 3rd December, 2015
6:00pm – 9:00pm
A lecture by Professor D. N. Rodowick (University of Chicago): ‘Fetishism and Skepticism, or the Two Worlds of Christian Metz and Stanley Cavell’
Arts One Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary University London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS, Mile End Tube (District Line)
Presented by THINK TANK Research Group, Film Studies, QMUL: www.facebook.com/events/972316859480981/

In this lecture, film philosopher D. N. Rodowick brings together two powerful thinkers linked through their common interest in investigating the relation between ontology and belief. Before the lecture, D. N. Rodowick will be screening his dual-screen film The Wanderers (Rodowick. 20:00. 2014).

Further information:
In this lecture, D. N. Rodowick brings together two powerful thinkers who are rarely discussed in the same frame: Christian Metz and Stanley Cavell. Roughly contemporary and equally influential in promoting strong versions of film studies, Metz and Cavell appear to approach the cinema as if from two different worlds. Ever the semiologist (although a semiology tempered by phenomenology), Metz seeks to ground questions of meaning, belief, and perceptual experience in psychology, or rather psychoanalysis. Though no less interested in psychoanalysis, Cavell approaches similar problems and experiences as a philosopher influenced by the later Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin’s investigations of ordinary language, though again, in ways tempered by phenomenology. 

Metz works as a semiologist or film theorist, and Cavell as a philosopher. Still, these two influential thinkers are linked through their common interest in investigating the relation between ontology and belief, and especially the perceptual character of expressions of ontology and belief. Both Metz and Cavell depict this problem as a nearly universal experience where evidence of the senses and of cognitive experience come into conflict with one another in the paradoxical structure of belief. 

Before the lecture, D. N. Rodowick will be screening his dual screen film installation The Wanderers: 1954 and 1958—Italy and Northern California—black & white and colour. In one a woman wanders and observes (Rossellini’s Voyage to Italy); in the other, the woman wanders and is observed (Hitchcock’s Vertigo). In both situations the gaze is mobile, walking or driving, the world screened by the floating frame of vision or car windows. Across the two spaces the women meander through museums, cemeteries, cities, landscapes of forest and ocean, sites of repetition, history, memory, and death. Images of faith and its distance from this world appear throughout. The Wanderers is a dual screen projection that is part of a larger installed work that re-imagines these two films as worlds sustained only by female desire, and which communicate across incommensurate dimensions.

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