Curating the Moving Image (2011) | The P&P Blog
Growing Sideways – Queer Childhoods in the Movies
Curator: Philipp Dominik Keidl
Designer: Lena Dischinger
Subject: A collection of films depicting the lives of children growing up outside heteronormative society-structures.
Theoretical Framework:
Kathryn Bond Stockton: The Queer Child or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century. Durham and London: Duke UP, 2009.
Film Examples:
Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros ( Auraeus Solito, Filippines 2005)
Die wilden Hühner und die Liebe (Vivian Naefe, Germany 2007)
Ma Vie en Rose (Alain Berliner, Great Britain/France 1997)
No Bikini (Claudia Morgado Escanilla, Canada 2007)
Memory as the theatre of archive footage
Curator: Anna Dabrowska
Subject: Archive Found Footage/ Work in progress/ Collective memory
Inspiration: Walter Benjamin
“Memory is not an instrument of exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.” (Walter Benjamin in “On the Concept of History.”)
The Stage on the Screen
Curator: Eve Majzels
Subject: The stage on the screen: images of vaudeville in silent film.
Inspiration: Buster Keaton
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4rkbdThe Playhouse (1921)
‘There’s a new town in town’
Curator: Katrien Lamers
Subject: The cinema as cultural and social (center in a) community
Inspiring person and organizations: Piet Meerburg, Kriterion & Cineville
“Ahum… There is a city of fiction and reality. Populated by heroes and anti heroes, voyeurs and connoisseurs. There is a city inhabited by Gods and their shadows, detectives and villains, gentlemen, womanizers and femme fatales. It is the city of cinephiles.”
Traditional (apolitical) skinhead subculture
Curator: Jasper Hokken
Subject: Traditional (apolitical) skinhead subculture
Inspiration: Dick Hebdige / The Aggrolites
Skinhead reggae (a clip from Skinhead attitude)
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The Films of Gian Maria Volonté
Name: Michela Russo
Subject: The films of Gian Maria Volonté and the Italian political landscape of the 1970s.
Inspiration: Gian Maria Volonté
Gian Maria Volonté
Human rights violations in Iran, represented in contemporary film and documentary
Curator: Marloes den Hoed
Subject: human rights violations in Iran represented in contemporary film and documentary
Inspiration: Jafar Panahi
A Cinema of the GRM?
Title: A Cinema of the GRM?
Curator: Christian Gosvig Olesen
Subject: The audiovisual productions by or related to the Groupe de Recherches Musicales at the French Radio.
Person: Pierre Schaeffer
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As an example of a film produced by the French radio with a GRM composer, I link here to the short experimental animation film made in a collaboration between Polish animator Piotr Kamler and composer Robert Cohen-Solal:
Click on the image below to see Piotr Kamler’s Délicieuse Catastrophe (1971) with music by composer Robert Cohen-Solal.
