Symposium with Eric Ames
Dec 16, 2009
Join Eric Ames as he discusses one of the very last films from East Germany, The Wall (1990) a film made by the artist, director, and political dissident Jürgen Böttcher. The lecture will combine close analysis of specific passages with open-ended discussion questions, while providing historical and political context as needed. Students should expect to come away from the class with two things: first, a sense of the film’s texture and formal qualities; second, an understanding of both the cinema and the Wall as sites of public memory in postwar Germany.
