'Movement is Power': Aesthetics and Politics of Motion in East German Experimental Cinema

“运动就是力量”：东德实验电影中的运动美学与政治

基本信息

批准号：
2890422
负责人：
金额：
--
依托单位：
University of Cambridge
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2023 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2890422
关键词：
Movement Power Aesthetics Politics Motion

项目摘要

My proposed project aims to interrogate how experimental and avant-garde cinema fulfilled a political function within the German Democratic Republic. Specifically, I shall consider the phenomenon of motion as an aesthetic and discursive device within GDR experimental cinema. Filmmakers frequently experimented with different ways of making things move (animation, screendance, experimental soundtracks), and many pertinent political questions in the late stage of the GDR are framed through metaphors of motion, such as the progress (or stagnation) of history and memory work, bodily agency and activity as a means towards resistance, and the dichotomy of matter and motion which lies at the heart of Marxist-Leninist metaphysics. My hypothesis is that GDR experimental filmmakers used their experiments into (para)cinematic motion to frame politically subversive and polemical critiques of GDR society. This work would contribute both to Film Studies and German Studies. In Film Studies, I aim to provide a rigorous analysis of how experimental cinema is embedded in political discourse not despite, but through its formal experimentation, a model which applies to the GDR and beyond; and in German Studies, I aim to diversify current scholarship on German avant-garde culture, which contains a notable gap in consideration of East Germanexperimental cinema.

我提出的项目旨在审问实验性和前卫电影在德国民主共和国内部的政治职能。具体而言，我将运动现象视为GDR实验电影中的美学和话语装置。电影制片人经常尝试使事情移动的不同方式（动画，屏幕截图，实验配乐）以及在GDR的后期进行的许多相关政治问题是通过运动隐喻来构建的，例如历史和记忆工作的进步（或停滞），身体机构的进步，身体的代理和活动，是对抵抗的含义，以及对物质和动作的二分态度，这是对恋爱的情绪。我的假设是，GDR实验电影制片人将他们的实验用于（Para）电影动作，以对GDR Society的政治颠覆性和辩论性批评进行构想。这项工作将有助于电影研究和德国研究。在电影研究中，我旨在对实验电影的政治话语中如何嵌入并不是通过其正式实验来提供严格的分析，该模型适用于GDR及其他地区；在德国的研究中，我旨在使有关德国前卫文化的当前学术奖学金多样化，该奖学金包含一个显着的差距，考虑到东德美裔电影院。