Ottinger discusses in an audience question session about some of the motivations and choices she made in her films, especially Freak Orlando (1981), the sociology of film and cinema, the different political and social dimensions of filmmaking between Europe and America movie,with many insights into the history of the film as mass-medium.
Nancy, reads from a text on Goethe's Faust and discusses it first in relation to an art installation for Italian artist Claudio Parmiggiani "Island of Silence". At the end of the lecture he reflects back on what the text has said about art.
This lecture features Goebbels describing in depth many of the ideas and technical and artistic challenges involved in the production of his Eraritjaritjaka - Museum der Sätze (Museum of Sentences). This presentation includes many video clips from rehearsals.
Bracha L. Ettinger, Israeli-French psychoanalyst, painter, artist and feminist theorist, discussing her paintings, notebooks and work on the matrixial borderspace, trans-subjectivity, co-poiesis and trauma. She describes the relation between her artistic practice and psychoanalytic practice.
Lovink introduces the wide range of his activities, from more theoretical to more practical projects, and concentrates on his theory of the nihilist impulse of blogging as he describes in his book "Zero Comments".
Nancy and Claire Denis discussing and screening their collaboration L'Intrus/The Intruder. Denis created the movie from Nancy's book.
Stone explores strategies for applying radical ideas to one's own life and work within the academia, maintaining one's intellectual integrity despite institutional hostility and resistance. Stone gives several examples from her own struggles and describes many of the groundbreaking projects she has been working on.
Virilio warns of the apocalyptic potential of the unbridled accelleration of human knowledge, a dromosphere which reduces the geosphere or the biosphere to nothing. Virilio asserts the need for a critical space, which more than a critical time, has a dimensionality and proportionality. (in French with English translation)
Pierre Alferi, French poet and writer, reading and discussing poetry, focusing on a multimedia DVD created in collaboration with sculptor Jacques Julien; including references to Jules Verne. European Graduate School, EGS Media and Communications Program Studies Department, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe 2007. Pierre Alferi
Filmmaker Atom Egoyan discussing the making of Citadel, a documentary filmed on a camcorder in Beirut, Lebanon. It traces the deeply personal return of actor Arsinee Khanjian to Lebanon after a 28-year absence.
Ulfers discusses the deconstructionst approaches and relational ethics of Robert Musil and how his visinn could be seen as providing a blueprint for what is being endeavoured at EGS, Utopian in Musil's sense meaning "the profound ambiguity of the World" which demands an acceptance of non-finiteness.
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Friedrich Ulfers, Dean of the European Graduate School, Media and Communication Studies Program talks about the difference between the European Graduate School EGS and other institutions and programs.
Virilio describes his project for a University of Disaster, where students will come together to discuss the acceleration not only of history of history itself. Virilio's articulates his drormology from the first pgotograph to the real-time media of our age which is leading us to the 'loss of vision'. (in French with English translation)
Rickels explores Derrida's notion of psychoanalysis as the one institution which addressed suffering and cruelty without recourse to metaphysical or metaphorical comforts. Rickels' section begins at the end of the 1st video.
Morgan Fisher, filmmaker, painter and artist, and Yve-Alain Bois, Harvard University, talking about expressivity, richness of life, abundance, film as a medium, sound, sync, picture, film and cinema history. Public open video lecture with students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2007. Morgan Fisher