Syllabus
General Structure / Each Day 10-12 Presenations and Lectures 13-15 Screenings + Group Work 15:30-17:30 Discussion
DAY 1/ November 13th
Project and workshop introduction
Main Topic: Our cities in postwar non-fiction film
DAY 2/ November 20th
Main Topic: Postwar Europe in Postwar Nonfiction Film
(Atrocities of War, Postwar Reconstruction, Displaced People and Refugees, Postwar Everyday Life)
DAY 3/ November 27th
Main Topic: Non-fiction Film and its Public Spaces
(Distribution and Circulation of Nonfiction film, Exhibition Contexts, Concepts of Non-fiction Cinema)
DAY 4/ December 4th
Main Topic: Archives, Access, Presentation
DAY 5/ December 18th
Optional!
Visible-Evidence Online Event (tbc)
Annotation
This workshop seminar is related to an international research project Visual Culture of Trauma, Obliteration and Reconstruction in Post-WW II Europe (VICTOR-E) that explores non-fiction films about the rebuilding of local, national and transnational communities across Europe in the period from 1945-1956. VICTOR-E raises the following question: How have audiovisual representations of public spaces – and particularly the documentation of war damage and of reconstruction efforts –, shaped the politics, policies and polities of post-WW II Europe?
An intensive online course taught in blocks on several Fridays in November and December will acquaint students with the key theoretical and conceptual background of the role of the media in shaping public space in post-war Europe, will offer a transnational perspective on a number of case studies and the opportunity not only to be part of an international group of students and to be taught by leading European film scolars (Vinzenz Hediger, Francesco Pitassio), but also to get acquainted with the unique archival material on the topic.