Event overview
A talk by Alberto Toscano
This talk will focus on the representations of systemic violence and revolutionary violence in films by the Japanese directors Masao Adachi and Koji Wakamatsu, in particular AKA Serial Killer (Adachi, 1969) Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War (Adachi and Wakamatsu, 1971), Ecstasy of the Angels (Wakamatsu, 1972) and United Red Army (2008).
It will trace the unique strategies put forward by Adachi and others under the rubric of fukeiron (landscape theory), for representing the social violence of capitalism, contrasting it with the contemporary preoccupation with landscapes of power in cinema and photography.
Toscano will then consider how these fatal landscapes of oppression, imperialism and capitalism provide the foil and backdrop for figurations of anti-systemic violence - in its militant (Red Army/PFLP), deliriously sectarian (Ecstasy) and finally (in the brutal United Red Army) self-destructively fanatical modalities.
What does it mean to represent militant conviction, both in its midst (Adachi was a member of the Japanese Red Army/PFLP) and in retrospect?
And how do the representational problems that concern political violence relate to those stemming from the need to register and combat systemic violence?
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 3 Nov 2010 | 4:15pm - 5:15pm |
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