20 March 2012: Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson: FACS OF LIFE
Framework: Reading for Writing, or How to do Things with Theory: Doreen Mende
20 March 2012 19:30 hrs. at DAI Auditorium, Kortestraat 27, Arnhem
FACS OF LIFE a Public lecture and film by Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson
FR/ I / UK, 2009
"Inspired by, and making creative use of, the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Facs of Life is a film in eight plateaus that attempts to sketch and construct singular trajectories of life and thought, beginning from a series of encounters: with video footage of Deleuze's courses at Vincennes (1975-76), with several of the students who attended the seminar and who appear in these images, with the woods of Vincennes where the university buildings once stood, with students of the new university at St Denis, and inevitably with the phantoms of revolution, both cinematic and political, that continue to haunt our desires. The eight plateaus each fall under a key concept-word or refrain that delineates the territory of each student's relationship to Deleuze's thought (their angle of approach) and the nature of our encounter with them. The plateaus, while sketching a narrative of the film's making, are designed to fold and unfold upon each other in a series of non-linear, multiple concatenations and assemblages".