Departmental News
Events
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Populism, Immigration and Discrimination, Sep 22
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Tactility and Community, Sep 22-23
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After Hybridity: Grafting as a Model for Cultural Translation, Sep 21
September 21, 2016
"All translation" Walter Benjamin states in his essay The Task of the Translator, "is only a somewhat provisional way of coming to terms with the foreignness of languages." The notion of cultural translation as it was developed by postcolonial studies attempts to cope not only with the foreignness of language, ...read more
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Cinema Beyond Europe, Sep 19
September 19, 2016
Joining attention to aesthetic experimentation with a focus on sociopolitical concerns, this talk will offer a discussion of the ways recent cinematic and artistic works engage Europe's increasingly diverse and complex relationship to migration. With a focus on projects that explore the sociopolitical tensions that have surrounded migration in Europe ...read more
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Refugees at the European Gates, Aug 30
August 30, 2016
Migration to Europe for reasons of survival (esp. from Syria and Afghanistan) and for economic reasons has vastly increased since 2014. The massive movements are a challenge and also a test for the willingness of the (mostly affluent) European countries to deal with the issues on a political, a humanitarian ...read more
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Lightning over Water (Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders, US/West Germany, 1980), Jun 24
June 24, 2016
When Nicholas Ray and Wim Wenders decided to make a film together, Ray had already undergone surgery for cancer. It was only after shooting began that the two directors fixed on the idea of taking their real-life situation as the film's fiction: Wenders and Ray deciding to make a film ...read more
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The State of Things (Wim Wenders, West Germany, 1982), Jun 23
June 23, 2016
Stuck while his Hollywood film Hammett was on hiatus, Wenderscreated this self-reflective film-within-a-film about, of course, a filmmaker stuck on a Hollywood project. The film moves from the rocky Portuguese coast, where crew members wait out some very long days and nights as their science-fiction movie grinds to a halt, ...read more
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Under Electric Clouds (Aleksey German Jr., Russia/Ukraine/Poland, 2015), Jun 20
June 20, 2016
Bay Area Premiere!
Featuring Louis Franck, Merab Ninidze, Viktoriya Korotkova, Chulpan Khamatova.“Everything is in chaos,” fittingly notes a character in Aleksey German, Jr.'s science-fiction look at a not-so-futuristic Russia. The film is set exactly one hundred years after the Russian Revolution amid a ruined, unfinished skyscraper, where assorted souls wander in ...read more
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The Left-Handed Woman (Peter handke, West Germany, 1978), Jun 19
June 19, 2016
Wenders produced this exquisite film written and directed by Peter Handke. "A married woman living in the suburbs of Paris separates from her husband and begins adjusting to a life alone. As the banal particulars of her daily routine proceed in a rigorously poetic fashion, every spoken word and gesture ...read more
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The American Friend (Wim Wenders, West Germany, 1977), Jun 18
June 18, 2016
Wenders's first “commercial” film merges his usual steadily presented musings on European identity, American culture, and cinema with some surprising new ingredients, from pulp-thriller source material—Patricia Highsmith's Ripley's Game—to a star turn from the manic, ever-destabilizing Dennis Hopper. A dying clockmaker (Bruno Ganz) meets a seedy American (Hopper, of course) ...read more