THURSDAY – December 8, 2016
14.30 – 15.00: Welcome and Introduction
15.00 – 15.45: Algiers’ Blood – Film Program 1
Coffee Break
16.15 – 18.15: Archives of Missing
From the Representation of the Colonial Subject to the Representation of the Freed Subject. Algerian Cinema facing Independence
(Presentation in French)
– Daho Djerbal (Université d’Alger II)
Missing George Jackson's Knife and Haile Gerima's Missing Wig: Intifada Archives of Solidarity, Kinship or Complicity. Beyond the Media Spectacle of Hashtags
– Greg Thomas (Tufts University, Medford)
Discussant: Nanna Heidenreich (ifs Köln)
Moderated by Viktoria Metschl (Universität Wien)
FRIDAY – December 9, 2016
9.30 – 11.00: The Event of the Minoritarian
Micropolitics or The Art of Becoming-Minor
(Presentation in German)
– Marc Rölli (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig)
Genealogies of Becoming-Minor: Cinema as ‚minor art‘
(Presentation in German)
– Petra Löffler (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
Discussant: Marc Ries (Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach a.M.)
Moderated by Lena Stölzl (Universität Wien)
Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.30: In the Territorial Crosshairs: Algeria
The Algiers Cinémathèque: a Space of (Post)Revolutionary Solidarity?
– Yasmina Dekkar (Goldsmiths University of London)
Fear, Sex, and the Algerian War
– Todd Shepard (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)
Libération Afrique. Algiers, Paris, and the Failure of the French Radical Left to Mobilize against Portuguese Colonialism
– Christoph Kalter (Freie Universität Berlin)
Discussant: Brigitta Kuster (Arstist / Writer / Researcher, Berlin)
Moderated by Christian Kravagna (Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien)
Lunch
14.30 – 15.45: Imagining the Networks. Filming Tricontinental – Film Program 2
Curated and presented by Mathieu K. Abonnenc (Artist / Filmmaker, Metz / Rome) & Olivier Hadouchi (Film Historian / Researcher / Curator, Paris)
Coffee Break
16.00 – 18.00: Broken Choreographies: Revolution
Political Prisoners and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Egypt: Visuality, Iconicity and Materiality
– Atef Botros Al Attar (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Doha)
The Square and the People. Sergej Loznitsa, MAIDAN (2014), and Jehane Noujaim, THE SQUARE (2013)
– Stefanie Diekmann (Universität Hildesheim)
‘Je suis venu pour vous tuer.’ Shadow Duels of the Algerian War in Films by Jean-Marie Straub, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, and Michael Haneke
– Tobias Hering (Curator / Writer / Researcher, Berlin)
Discussant: Andreas Schmiedecker (Writer / Researcher / Teacher, Berlin)
Moderated by Birgit Englert (Universität Wien)
SATURDAY – December 10, 2016
10.15 – 12.00: Figurations of an A-Venir – Film Program 3
Coffee Break
12.15 – 14.15: Operations of Figuration
Relations and Disconnections. The Fragility of Thinking and the Obtuseness of the Aesthetic in Cinematic Experience
– Sudeep Dasgupta (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Psyche and Politics. On Kader Attia’s REASON’S OXYMORONS
– Kathrin Peters (Universität der Künste Berlin)
‘La vraie vie est ailleurs.’ The Figure of the Migrant and the Harraga Phenomenon in Film and Literature
– Réda Bensmaïa (Brown University, Providence)
Discussant: Reinhold Görling (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Moderated by Joachim Schätz (Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Wien)
Mezze
English translation will be provided for French and German presentations.