e-flux lecture by Ute Holl
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's adaptation of Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron (Moses and Aaron), shot in 1974 and dedicated to Holger Meins, is a study on migration, exile, and on being a stranger or alien. The lecture will look at the strategies of technical media Straub and Huillet apply to work with sounds and images in their film. In the equal distribution of aesthetic elements, their film follows Schoenberg's rule of twelve-tone distribution of indiscrimintae perception. Thus, the film confronts the situation 'before the law', violence, and the question of the (missing) people.
e-flux lectures is a series of events dedicated to discovering the protocols of twenty-first century truth, assuming these still exist.
Live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/e-flux
ist Professorin für Medienwissenschaft an der Universität Basel. Zu ihren Forschungsschwerpunkten gehören Medienästhetik und Wahrnehmungstheorien, mediale Anthropologie und experimentelles Kino, sowie Kinosound und Elektroakustik. Sie ist Autorin mehrerer Bücher.