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SYMPOSIUM
Reel Travel
Displacements of Film
Cosponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum
in association with Penn's Department of Germanic Languages and
Literatures and Cinema Studies Program
Friday, 6 April, 2007
9:00 am – 5:30 pm
Penn Humanities Forum
3619 Locust Walk, Penn campus
Event free and open to the public.
In 1976, Wim Wenders’ Kings of the Road redefined
the road film, and in the thirty years since, cinema and travel
have existed in continuous dialogue. What energies, fantasies, and
anxieties are released when film crosses a border or hits the road?
How do movies respond to tourism, exile, migration, flight? How
are ideas of "nation" and "foreignness" shaped
by cinema and what part does it play in globalism?
Join the experts in a day of spirited discussion and debate of
Reel Travel.
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Program Agenda
Documents in Disorder (9:10a)
•Katie Trumpener (Yale), The Journey
to Poland: Helke Misselwitz's Foreign Oder and the Posterity
of GDR Documentary
•David Kazanjian (Penn), Handwork: Beyond Egoyan's Ararat
Peripatetics of Displacement (11:15a)
•Short Videos and Conversation with Conceptual
Artist Kinga Araya
Travels with Michael Haneke (1:15p)
•Imke Meyer (Bryn Mawr), Empire's Remains:
Displacement and Historical Memory in Michael Haneke's Le Temps
du loup
•Fatima Naqvi (Rutgers), Hiding Places: Migration and Space
in Michael Haneke's Films
In the Course of Time: Travel, Cinema, Media
(3:20p)
•Gerd Gemunden (Dartmouth), Wenders Revisited
•Rod Coover (Temple), Characters, Paths, and Panoramas; New
Media Tools and the Displacements of the Cinematic Journey
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