Cinematic Gardens and the Subconscious
- cinema
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projection
Throughout the history of cinema, gardens, parks, courtyards, and other green spaces have always been much more than just sets or filming locations. They have served as places where desires, anxieties, and fantasies are expressed, and where meaning is sought—whether in peaceful sanctuaries or labyrinths filled with mystery. At the same time, these spaces showcase a nature shaped and maintained by human intervention, alongside areas left wild and untamed, thus highlighting the tension between order and chaos.
Whether it's the walled garden in The Secret Garden (1993), reflecting grief and self-discovery, the suburban lawns in Broken Flowers (2005) signaling social status, the lavish castle gardens in Last Year at Marienbad (1961) distorting time and memory, the colonial plots in The New World (2005) revealing power relations between settlers and Indigenous peoples, or the Japanese garden in Kill Bill (2003), transformed into a stylized battlefield—gardens in cinema have always reflected deeper social realities or emotional states, serving as windows onto the unconscious.
Aimed at both film buffs and garden enthusiasts, this series of lectures explores the role and symbolism of cinematic gardens in four lectures: Gardens & Power, Gardens & Love, Gardens & Crime and Gardens & The Gothic.
Where does it take place?
LUGA Science Hub – Vallée de la Pétrusse
28 Rue St Ulric
2651 Ville-Haute Luxembourg
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