On Speaking about the Unspeakable and Seeing the Invisible or: The Search for Lost Entirety

Authors

  • Maria Marchetta Berlin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/106

Keywords:

Ästhetik, Film, Medien, Psychoanalyse, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Christina Scherer’s dissertation points to the structural equivalence between the aesthetics of the essay film and the process of remembering. Ivens, Marker, Godard and Jarman make the unavailability of memory their central theme. Despite the filmmakers’ doubts about the possibility of replicating a true image of the world and their knowledge of the irretrievability of the past they nonetheless insist on the possibility of memory. Reflectively positioning oneself, acknowledging inevitable errors of the past, and looking back in melancholy on a lost entirety are some of the strategies in essay films which generate a sympathetic mind and a thinking heart.

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Published

2002-03-01

Issue

No. 6 (2002): Musik, Film, Bühne und Kunst

Section

Schwerpunkt

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Copyright (c) 2002 Maria Marchetta

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