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    Symposium Contested Memory (Erinnerungskämpfe)

    Tagung / Konferenz / Symposium

    15.04. – 16.04.2023

    Toni-Areal, Kino Toni, Ebene 3, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, Zürich

    Master of Arts in Art Education
    With: Jane Jin Kaisen, Volker Pantenburg and Students Master Art Education
    Hosted by Anselm Franke

    SYMPOSIUM:
    FILMS AND DISCUSSIONS
    ENTRY FREE FOR ALL

    How are modern histories of violence written forth, and what cinematic-documentary strategies unravel and confront colonial amnesia and the nationalistic appropriation of collective traumas? The symposium "Contested Memory (Erinnerungskämpfe)" takes six films as the starting point for a discussion of narrative techniques and image politics in documentary film, which deal with memory and the afterlife and perpetuation of structural relations of violence. The films will be discussed together with invited guests. The discussion parts will be prepared and co-moderated by the participating students. The event is open to the public and free of charge.

    Der Lachende Mann (The Laughing Man) by Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann is a much-discussed contemporary GDR documentary from 1966, consisting of an interview with the mercenary Sigfried Müller, known as "Congo Müller". Raoul Peck's Exterminate All the Brutes is a 2021 HBO miniseries that connects the current renaissance of right-wing ideologies of white supremacy to the continuities of genocidal histories of violence. Joshua Oppenheimer's 2012 The Act of Killing focuses on the 1965/66 anti-communist mass killings in Indonesia through interviews with perpetrators still alive. Angela Melitopoulos' Passing Drama from 1999 is a cinematic meditation on migrant memory and transgenerational trauma that addresses the displacements and forced relocations that followed the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War. Jane Jin Kaisen's Community of Parting from 2019 addresses the afterlives of histories of violence and their transnational entanglements in a divided Korea through the lens of shamanic practices and myths. Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese's This is Not A Burial, it’s a Resurrection from 2019 is the only feature film in the program: a story of symbolic death and rebirth probing the depth of colonial modernity’s frontiers, told through an old woman's resistance to the forced relocation of her village.

    Program:

    Saturday, 15 April
    10:30
    Welcome: Anselm Franke
    Introduction: Students
    Der Lachende Mann- Walter Heynowski/ Gerhard Scheumann (1966) [66 minutes]
    Discussion

    12:00
    Introduction: Students
    Input: Volker Pantenburg, UZH
    Discussion

    14:00
    Lunch break

    15:00
    Introduction: Students
    The Act of Killing- Joshua Oppenheimer (2012) [115 minutes]
    Discussion

    17:30
    Break

    18:00
    Introduction: Students
    Passing Drama- Angela Melitopoulos (1999) [66 minutes]
    Discussion

    19:30
    Final Input and Apéro


    Sunday, 16 April
    11:00
    Welcome: Anselm Franke
    Introduction: Students
    One Episode Exterminate all the Brutes- Raoul Peck (2021) [60 minutes]
    Discussion

    13:00
    Lunch break

    14:00
    Introduction: Students
    Community of Parting- Jane Jin Kaisen (2019) [72 minutes]
    Input: Jane Jin Kaisen, artist
    Discussion

    16:00
    Break

    16:30
    Introduction: Students
    This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection- Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (2019) [120 minutes]
    Discussion

    19:00
    Closure

    • Veranstaltungsdetails

      • Öffnungszeiten

        Saturday, 15.4.23
        10:30-19:30

        Sunday, 16.4.23
        11:00-19:00

      • Eintritt

        Eintritt frei

      • Besetzung / Beteiligte

        Conceived and hosted by: Anselm Franke
        Guests: Jane Jin Kaisen, Volker Pantenburg
        Introduction and reflections by students Master Art Education