Generating Visibility
Conference on the photographic and
cinematic work of Abbas Kiarostami
The meeting focuses on drafts and concepts of image and visibility in one perspective combining both media – photography and film. Furthermore, it is about the specific aesthetics of the Iranian auteur, which is hoped to be defined more precisely by exemplarily analysing works and cycles.
The Picture-Turn, which is stressed out thematically in the photography, pushes the documentarily inspired Film-Turn, seen in the cinematographic work, aside, yet next to it.
Picture, film and reality form a tense exchange, tearing down the borders between them and still generate an internal and external interlock – entirely in line with elaborated modern media aesthetics.
It generates cinematic visibility, which keeps the diversity of picture, non-picture, of fiction and document or of film, film-in-film, constantly rotating. The conference examines the films and photography of Kiarostami not only with means of art history and intermediality, but also looks at perspectives in analysis, theory and history of film.
The meeting is a cooperation of Stiftung Situation Kunst with the professorship in Film Studies with the main subject Film Theory and Film Aesthetics of the Institute of Media Studies (RUB).
Contact: Prof. Dr. Oliver Fahle
(Oliver.Fahle(at)rub[dot]de)
Programme
Thursday, 8 November 2012
4 pm
Insight into the exhibition
Maria Schulte, Stiftung Situation Kunst, Bochum
5.30 pm
Film presentation Like Someone in Love (Director: Abbas Kiarostami, France/Japan
2012, 109 minutes, original with English subtitles)
7.30 pm
About ellipse in Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love
François Fronty, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Programme
Friday, 9 November 2012
9.30 am
Welcoming, Introduction
10.45 am
Verzögerung und Rekurrenz: Zur Ästhetik der Kontemplation in Kiarostamis Filmen
Ursula Frohne, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität zu Köln
noon
Film als Agent: Abbas Kiarostamis Quer durch den Olivenhain
Lorenz Engell, IKKM, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
1.00 pm
lunch break
2nd part, presenter: Lorenz Engell
2.15 pm
Unterwegs zwischen Fotografie und Film: Roads of Kiarostami
Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe, Stiftung Situation Kunst, Bochum
3. 15 pm
In cooperation with the earth, wind and water: Das elementare Kino von Abbas Kiarostami im Hinblick auf seine Fotografie
Annette Urban, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
4. 30 pm
Close-up und das Dokumentarische
Oliver Fahle, Institut für Medienwissenschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
6 pm
End of meeting
Participation fee: 5 Euros, discount 3 Euros and includes the entrance into the exhibition.
Students of the Ruhr University Bochum are free of charge