RAF en de cinema
Lezing
| Activiteit van externe partij |
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| Datum: | woensdag 7 november 2007 |
| Locatie: | Gerrit Rietveld Academie |
Lezing
Shortly after the events of 1977 a group of German filmmakers release a collaborative work: Germany in Autumn.
The film starts with the funeral of Schleyer, and concludes with the burial of Baader, Ensslin and Raspe. In between are narratives from different perspectives, which show the unbridgeable crises in German society.
Fassbinder, one of the directors, is playing himself. Naked and aggressive he makes clear that also people who are seemingly not involved cannot escape the insanity of the situation. A few years before, Fassbinder had made Mother Küsters goes to heaven, while his colleague Volker Schlöndorff made The lost honor of Katharina Blum. Two films dealing with the role of the media in stirring up the struggle between activists and the state.
After 1977 Fassbinder and Schlöndorff continued making films about the Red Armee Fraction. In the third generation Fassbinder made a farce of the violent actions of Baader and Meinhof’s succesors. At its release he claimed: “I don’t throw bombs, I make films.” Sympathizers of the Red Armee Fraction were so angry that they threatened to damage the film with acid.
In his lecture Erik Viskil discusses Fassbinder’s and Schlöndorff’s contribution to the representation of the Red Armee Fraction in German cinema. He shows fragments of their films, and of other films made about the subject. Schlöndorff’s The lost honor of Katharina Blum and Fassbinder’s Mother Küsters goes to heaven will be screened in de balie at 16 and 17 november 2007; for the times and other film screenings, see the general information on this series.
Erik Viskil works as an advisor to cultural organizations. He studied Argumentation Theory & Rhetoric at the University of Amsterdam, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Rietveld Academie and founding coordinator of the department of writing.
The film starts with the funeral of Schleyer, and concludes with the burial of Baader, Ensslin and Raspe. In between are narratives from different perspectives, which show the unbridgeable crises in German society.
Fassbinder, one of the directors, is playing himself. Naked and aggressive he makes clear that also people who are seemingly not involved cannot escape the insanity of the situation. A few years before, Fassbinder had made Mother Küsters goes to heaven, while his colleague Volker Schlöndorff made The lost honor of Katharina Blum. Two films dealing with the role of the media in stirring up the struggle between activists and the state.
After 1977 Fassbinder and Schlöndorff continued making films about the Red Armee Fraction. In the third generation Fassbinder made a farce of the violent actions of Baader and Meinhof’s succesors. At its release he claimed: “I don’t throw bombs, I make films.” Sympathizers of the Red Armee Fraction were so angry that they threatened to damage the film with acid.
In his lecture Erik Viskil discusses Fassbinder’s and Schlöndorff’s contribution to the representation of the Red Armee Fraction in German cinema. He shows fragments of their films, and of other films made about the subject. Schlöndorff’s The lost honor of Katharina Blum and Fassbinder’s Mother Küsters goes to heaven will be screened in de balie at 16 and 17 november 2007; for the times and other film screenings, see the general information on this series.
Erik Viskil works as an advisor to cultural organizations. He studied Argumentation Theory & Rhetoric at the University of Amsterdam, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Rietveld Academie and founding coordinator of the department of writing.
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