Talking Pictures: Watching You Watching Her — Kino, Voyeurism and Transgression
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cinema
🎙 Speaker: Julia Rock, Yves Steichen
📫 Language: LU
🎟 Free entry
☕ Food and drinks provided!
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Cinema is a space of viewing—and clandestine glances. This lecture explores how films can turn their viewers into voyeurs, generating desire and crossing moral and aesthetic boundaries. The spectator's gaze becomes a central element in a cinematic aesthetic where power, control, and transgressive desire are inextricably linked.
The focus is on analyzing how gaze and desire are organized in cinema and how films probe the boundaries of voyeurism and transgression.
Using works like Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" (1954) and "Vertigo" (1958), Brian De Palma's "Body Double" (1984), David Cronenberg's "Videodrome" (1983), Alejandro Amenábar's "Tesis" (1996), and Joel Schumacher's "8MM" (1999), the lecture examines the aesthetics of observation: How does the camera become an instrument of control and desire? How does cinema itself, in the ambivalent tension between fascination with violence, pleasure, discomfort, complicity, and moral assessment, become a place of "permitted" transgression—and what are the consequences for spectators?
Good to know
Lecture language: Luxembourgish (LU)
Free entry
Food and drinks included
Automatically translated from German.
Where does it take place?
National Audio-Visual Center
1B rue du Centenaire
3475 Dudelange
Luxembourg
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