Itziar Barrio, Robota MML
What do humans do after a successful revolution? The traditional answer is: they become the new masters and begin to impose their will on the losers. Indeed, such is the usual historical dynamic. However, Kojève believed that the working spirit—or rather the spiritualized working body—could be victorious over the animal human body. In other words: he believed that after the proletarian revolution succeeds, proletarians will continue working. But they will not work merely to live or satisfy their desires; they will work to maintain the spiritualized life-form their revolution achieved.
Screening and discussion: Marion von Osten and Matt Peterson
Double screening and discussion: Marwa Arsanios and Nele Wohlatz
Screening of Straub-Huillet’s Class Relations, with a talk by Annett Busch
Labor, Class, Desire: A Screening of Alain Guiraudie and Apitchapong Weerasethakul