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Project Website (with 72 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11373/
Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Slought Foundation, Philadelphia are pleased to announce a public conversation about the work of Werner Herzog on Monday, October 22, 2007 from 6:30-8:00pm. This event will feature Timothy Corrigan, Heidi Schlipphacke, and Alan Singer in a conversation introduced by Karen Beckman, and has been jointly organized by Tim Corrigan and Aaron Levy on the occasion of "Ecstatic Truth: Documenting Herzog 'Documenting,'" an exhibition exploring the work of Werner Herzog, on display in the Slought Foundation galleries from October 22 through November 15, 2007 (here for more information).
For more information on other events and activities organized around Werner Herzog's Fall 2007 visit, organized by the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, please visit www.cinemastudies.upenn.edu or download the poster (PDF)
Werner Herzog, one of the most influential filmmakers in New German Cinema, was born in Munich in 1942. Herzog has gained notoriety not only for his fantastic narratives but also for pushing himself and his crew to unprecedented lengths in order to achieve the effects he demanded. He has produced, written, and directed more than forty films, published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas. Herzog’s works explore the boundary between fiction and documentary practice, and aim for “ecstatic truth” in the form of an event-based dynamic and “the feeling of being an observer dragged into the scene.”
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Timothy Corrigan is a Professor of English and formerly Director of Cinema Studies at Penn. His work has focused on modern American and international cinema, as well as pedagogy and film. Books include New German Film: The Displaced Image, The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History, Writing about Film, A Cinema without Walls: Movies and Culture after Vietnam, and Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader. His most recent book is The Film Experience (co-authored with Patricia White), and he is presently working on a study titled Visible Thinking: The Essay Film from Chris Marker to Derek Jarman.
Heidi Schlipphacke is Associate Professor of German and European Studies
at Old Dominion University. She is currently a visiting associate professor of German at Haverford College. She has published on the Frankfurt School and contemporary German and Austrian film and literature as well as on constructions of gender and family in the European Enlightenment. In 2006 she co-directed the Old Dominion University Film Festival which focused on the topic of cinephilia. Her current project is concerned with post-fascist masculinities in German cinema.
Alan Singer is Professor of English at Temple University, teaching in the fields of literary aesthetics, critical theory, the history of criticism, the history of the novel and creative writing. His most recent book is Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos, a defense of the cognitive value of aesthetic experience, as well as a co-edited volume entitled Literary Aesthetics: A Reader. His current project is a book about self-deception and aesthetic production, tentatively titled Self-Deceiving Sense. His current novel-in-progress is titled The Inquisitor's Tongue.
This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of the Jerry and Emily Spiegel Funds in Fine Arts, the Cinema Studies Program, the Department of German, and the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. We would also like to thank International House of Philadelphia, the Society of Friends of the Slought Foundation, and the Roy & Niuta Titus Foundation. Very special thanks for organizing the Werner Herzog's Fall 2007 visit at the University of Pennsylvania goes to Paul Holdengräber, Nathaniel Kahn, Nicola M. Gentili, Timothy Corrigan, and Karen Beckman.
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