Before the Law
Film Series
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Heinrich-Böll-Platz
50667 Cologne
www.museum-ludwig.de
Since the middle of December, Museum Ludwig has been showing Kasper König’s last programmatic exhibition in Cologne: Before the Law brings together sculptures from the post-war era with spaces created by contemporary artists. The film scholar and professor of visual theory at the Bauhaus University Weimar, Volker Pantenburg, together with Berlin film journalist, author and editor Michael Baute have compiled a film programme for the exhibition.
The film series presents examples of how cinema has conceived of the relationship between discrete bodies left to their own resources, and abstract, often all-powerful authorities. We find two historical constellations here: when Modernism flourished during the late 1950s and 1960s, existential questions came to be translated into severe, sculptural-looking tableaux. The individual was faced with an abstract, mostly unnamed and inexplicable power. By contrast, a notable return to the body and places can be observed in the last two decades, quite possibly as an antidote to the abstract, allegorical approaches of Modernism. Questions about existence are no longer phrased in anthropological terms or as questions of belief, but as concrete models of life and survival.
Venue: Cinema at Museum Ludwig
Dates: Always at 8 p.m. on a Thursday
26.1.2012, 8 p.m.
The Savage Eye
USA 1960, director: Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick, OV with French subtitles
9.2.2012, 8 p.m.
Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna)
Japan 1964, director: Hiroshi Teshigahara, OV with subtitles
23.2.2012, 8 p.m.
Teorema
Italy 1968, director: Pier Paolo Pasolini, OV with English subtitles
8.3.2012, 8 p.m.
The Circle (Dayereh)
Iran 2000, director: Jafar Panahi, OV with subtitles
15.3.2012, 8 p.m.
A New Life
France 1999, director: Bruno Dumont, OV with subtitles
29.3.2012, 8 p.m.
S21 The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
France/Cambodia 2003, director: Rithy Panh, OV with subtitles
12.4.2012, 8 p.m.
The 10th Judicial Court: Judicial Hearings
France 2004, director: Raymond Depardon, OV with English subtitles
*Image above:
Sammlung Goetz.
Photo: Achim Kukulies.
© Pawel Althamer, Courtesy Sammlung Goetz.
