Film Screening and Reception: Judith Wechsler, 'The Passages of Walter Benjamin'
Location: Full Frame Theater, American Tobacco Campus
Reception with filmmaker Judith Wechsler: 6:00 p.m.
Film screening: 6:30 p.m., followed by Q&A
In 1933, Walter Benjamin, one of the most brilliant literary and cultural critics of his time, fled Berlin for Paris. There he sat, at the Bibliothèque Nationale, working in poverty and relative obscurity on his most important project, The Arcades Project.
With the backdrop of totalitarianism spreading across the European continent, Benjamin explored the origins of modernity. What Benjamin sought was “images, not stories.”
The Passages of Walter Benjamin (2014) by Judith Wechsler presents the The Arcades Project in the context of Benjamin’s life and times, and eventual suicide. Told through Benjamin’s own writings, fragments from his life and work are points of entry into his wider biography.
Sponosored by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library; Franklin Humanities Institute; Art, Art Hitsory, & Visual Studies Department; Program in Arts of the Moving Image; Computational Media, Arts & Cultures Program; Romance Studies Department; and the Power Plant Gallery.
More information:
- Date:
- Thursday, November 30, 2017
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:30pm
- Location:
- Other (see event description)
- Categories:
- Public Event Rubenstein
