Cinepoetics Lectures
The Cinepoetics Lectures are a very special format in the center’s work since they stand for interesting talks by internationally acclaimed scholars that are in close contact with our work on the poetologies of audiovisual images. Besides different perspectives from the field of film studies, the lectures feature a wide range of influences from the humanities, most importantly from media studies and the arts.
The Cinepoetics Lectures are a collaboration with Kino Arsenal (Institute for Film and Video Art), open to the public and free of charge. Each lecture is accompanied by a film screening that complements the talk’s topic. For the film, Kino Arsenal will charge the usual admission fees.
Current Lecture
(Lecture in German)
Today, we encounter split screens in a wide variety of media configurations: on the displays of cell phones, on computer screens, and in video conferences. But they also have a long tradition on the cinema screen. Here, a development can be traced that fans out from the logic of the central perspective and the self-identical subject of film to the heterogeneous and dynamic image networks of split screens.
In his lecture, Malte Hagener grasps this branching out from a (film) historical perspective and argues thus for understanding split screens as a media-specific logic that reaches far beyond film into the most diverse medial arrangements. The film THE BOSTON STRANGLER serves him as a historical example, which will be shown after the lecture.
October 31st 2023, 6:00 pm, Kino Arsenal am Potsdamer Platz
06:00 - Kino 1
Lecture by Malte Hagener
07:30 – Lounge
Reception
08:00 – Kino 1
Screening of THE BOSTON STRANGLER (Richard Fleischer, USA 1968, DCP, 116 Min., OV)
