Aktivitet: Tale eller præsentation › Foredrag og mundtlige bidrag
Beskrivelse
In 1967, Danish film director born in Aarhus, Jørgen Leth released a short film entitled “The Perfect Human” (Det perfekte menneske). The film depicts a woman and a man in an abstract white world where they perform everyday actions. Their actions are haunted by an interesting thought: “Today, too, I experienced something I hope to understand in a few days.” In 2003, Lars von Trier, another acclaimed, and perhaps more known Danish film director challenged Leth to re-do his film with the condition that certain obstructions, technical and methodological, would have to be followed. Von Trier applied five obstructions which resulted in five iterations of the same film, yet the changes brought forth new understandings of the same reality. Through various forms of representation and careful readings, this lecture explores ways of seeing the city and re-constructs five urban realities framed from different points of view.