2010 D-3-D: THE RETURN OF DEEP SPACE - a public lecture by Thomas Elsaesser / curated by If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of your Revolution for DAI/ hosted by the Rijksmuseum Twenthe

The Dutch Art Institute & If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution kindly invite you to join us for 
“D-3-D: THE RETURN OF DEEP SPACE” a public lecture by Thomas Elsaesser on Wednesday May 19 from 20:00 – 21.30  at the Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Lasondersingel 129-131, 7514 BP Enschede.

About the lecture:
With the not entirely unexpected box-office success of Avatar, 3-D films are all the rage. But this 'return of deep space' had been prepared for long in advance, and it is not at all obvious, what reasons, forces or intentions stand behind this change in viewing experience and perceptual habits. The lecture wants to dig a little deeper into deep space by offering a more layered but also more historical informed account of stereoscopic images and three-dimensional motion pictures.

Thomas Elsaesser is Professor Emeritus of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam and since 2005 Visiting Professor at Yale University. He currently holds a Senior Research position at the Free University Berlin. He is internationally known for his writings on classical and post-classical Hollywood, on European cinema, film history and media theory. Among his recent books are: Harun Farocki (2004), European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood (2005); Terror und Trauma (2007); Hollywood Heute (2009) and Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses (2010).

This lecture takes place in the framework of the research project "Affectionately Yours", that If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution is curating at the Dutch Art Institute in Enschede, together with tutors Hito Steyerl and Phil Collins.