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WiSe 24/25: Animalizing Film Form

Ina Karkani

Additional information / Pre-requisites

Obligatorische Arbeitsleistungen: Textlektüre, regelmäßige und aktive Kursteilnahme, Übernahme eines Referats (ggf. in Gruppen).

Comments

What happens to the film constitutive elements of narration, montage, performance, and sound when animal presence takes over? By looking at a body of recent films of different genres and production backgrounds, this course will bring film aesthetics into dialogue with animal studies. The aim is to explore how contemporary questions of animal ethics, creaturely attention, vulnerability, and otherness are addressed in various diegetic and extra-diegetic cinematic worlds and how these relate to the world of the viewer. A key variable in the discussion is the spectator’s body: film, audience, and culture are seen as primarily performative as they bring about new forms of thinking and creating along the interspecies continuum. The discussions will draw from sensory approaches to film form (Elsaesser and Hagener, 2010), creaturely poetics (Pick, 2011), interspecies acts (Chaudhuri & Hughes, 2014), and Indigenous sound studies (Robinson, 2020). Compulsory coursework: Text reading, regular and active course participation, presentation of a paper (in groups if necessary). close

8 Class schedule

Regular appointments

Tue, 14:00 - 18:00 8 Class schedule

Tue, 2024-10-15 14:00 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Ina Karkani