Harun Farocki’s cinema of ruptures – Serious Games

“I try to let the film think.” Harun Farocki (9 January 1944 – 30 July 2014) was a filmmaker, author, and film theorist. He was deeply influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Luc Godard. Farocki’s films investigate the processes through which images and the messages they carry are constructed, transmitted, and perceived; as well as the …

Thinking on Screen – Films About Philosophers

Antonio Negri – A Revolt that Never Ends BADIOU Derrida: The Documentary Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People Hannah Arendt Jean-Paul Sartre et Simone de Beauvoir Living in the End Times (According to Slavoj Zizek) Marx Reloaded The Ister Adi Shankarachaary Conversation of The World – Valentin Y. Mudimbe and Boaventura de Sousa Santos Мераб Мамардашвили\Merab …

Films of protest/rebellion/revolution

October: Ten Days That Shook the World, 1927 This film is the final part of director Sergei Eisenstein’s trilogy. He admitted that the revolution had “given him the most precious of all things: It made him an artist.” Chapaev, 1934 This is a film by the Vasiliev brothers about self-sacrificing Red Army commander Vasily Chapaev, …