Event overview
An InC event organised in collaboration with Alexander Duttman.
SCREENING
LUCHINO VISCONTI: "LA CADUTA DEGLI DEI / THE DAMNED" (1969, in Italian
with English subtitles, 150 minutes)
"The greatest film ever made." (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
"Objectively, your film lends itself to appropriation by the forces of
reaction." (Pier Paolo Pasolini in an open letter to Visconti)
followed by a CONVERSATION between:
GILBERT ADAIR (author of "The Death Of The Author" and "And Then There
Was No One", screenwriter of Bernardo Bertolucci's film "The
Dreamers", columnist and critic with The Times and The Independent on
Sunday)
HOWARD CAYGILL (professor of Cultural History at Goldsmiths, author of
"Walter Benjamin: Colour And Experience" and "Levinas And The
Political")
GEOFFREY NOWELL-SMITH (professor at Queen Mary, author of "Luchino
Visconti", "The Oxford History Of World Cinema" and "Making Waves: New
Cinemas Of The 1960s", co-editor and translator of Antonio Gramsci,
"Selections From The Prison Notebooks")
and ALEXANDER DUTTMANN (professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture at
Goldsmiths)
Everyone is welcome.
Dates & times
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17 Mar 2009 | 4:00pm - 9:00pm |
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