Film screening 'Act of Resistance'

Studio 5

17.12.2009, 18:00 — 22:00 Film

Curated by Annett Busch and Florian Schneider

In the films of Huillet and Straub the act of speaking becomes an act of resistance. Resistance against the gods or against fascism. Resistance of a text against meaningful interpretation, alleged originality or the most forseeable such as: workers at work, peasants while farming as well as any further representation or abstraction of a common fate. Instead, the workers and peasants are inverted to actors who are speaking in verses. Deleuze mentioned that the act of resistance has two sides: "It is human, and it is also the act of art." Today this seems more urgent than ever: The work of art is resistance against communication.

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Language English

Location Kunsthal Extra City - Antwerpen-Berchem, Eikelstraat 25-31, 2600 Antwerpen

Of A People Who Are Missing: on films by Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub 13.11.2009—20.12.2009