March 12, 2019
Dr. Randall Halle
This program is presented through a joint partnership of the Colorado European Union Center of Excellence, the Center for Contemporary Art and the Santa Fe World Affairs Forum
Dr. Randall Halle
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 @ 6 pm
The Screen
1600 Saint Michaels Drive Santa Fe, NM 87505
Dr. Randall Halle, The Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German Film and Cultural Studies and the Director of the Film and Media Studies Program at University of Pittsburgh, presents a lecture and screening of a film that addresses many of the urgent challenges facing societies across the globe.
His books include: The Europeanization of Cinema, German Film after Germany, Queer Readings in Social Philosophy and the co-edited volumes After the Avant-Garde and Light Motives.
The screening is Christian Petzold’s “TRANSIT”, an engaging and challenging drama with refugees, fascism, desperation, betrayal, mystery and love. The film adapts Anna Segher’s 1944 novel about German refugee who fled to Marseille at the outbreak of WWII, the invading Nazi forces on their heels. But it moves between the plight of the displaced then and now. Living among refugees from around the world huddled in Marseille, our main character assumes the identity of the dead writer whose transit papers he is carrying. And he falls for, a mysterious woman searching for her husband—the man whose identity he has stolen. (Germany/France, 2018, 101m)
“Extraordinary! Conceptually daring.”
–Variety“Moody, beguiling, formally bold. Turns history
into an existential maze fromwhich few seem destined to escape” –The New
York Times“Urgent and slyly brilliant. Like
a remake of Casablanca as written by Franz Kafka.” –IndieWire
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 @ 6 pm
The Screen
1600 Saint Michaels Drive Santa Fe, NM 87505
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