The introductory “walk” through the first parts of Deleuze’s work on cinema was intended to provide basic tools for an understanding of the ultimate cinematographic material, that is, the image, as well as to take us into the cinematic world and its concepts.
This excursion into the movement-image was followed by the much richer, faster, longer, […]

‘The construction of the film has to show the audience how open to manipulation they really are, and that’s the difficult bit. It shows the audience “here you are, you are a voyeur”, and by doing so it lifts you out of the action. Then it shows you back into the thick of it again […]

Visible or invisible, all kinds of borders are being set, built, reinforced and extended throughout the world’s geography. Territorial borders, economic borders, political borders, sexual borders, oppressive borders, choice borders, gender and class borders, labour borders… Extreme polarization and difference result from the dramatic dynamics that are set in motion or enhanced by the growing […]

The series of guest lectures will start next week with the visit of Judit Vidiella, a researcher and teacher at the UB, where she coordinates a post-graduate master program on Visual Culture Studies. She will participate in the WEEK 4 session of Dissensus on Wednesday the 15th, and will also offer a lecture on Thursday […]

The Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SSE) announced as of 22 December, 2006, that the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) was the winner of the competition to design its new financial exchange. Located in Shenzhen’s new Financial District adjacent to the administrative and cultural center of the city, the new SSE will be a financial center with […]

Ulrich Seidl’s cinema of disturbance forces the otherwise passive spectator into an active role: he/she, the viewer, must now “read” the image, think and react. By leaving an open space in the film, Seidl offers the viewer a chance to understand the everyday life scenarios and grotesque episodes from his/her own perspective. This freedom is […]