In a Protest State of Mind!
Artistic Research
June 28, 2025
How can filmic protest be more than mere documentation? What spaces does the camera create, which dynamics does it bump into? How do moving images generate empathy and solidarity? And how can critical distance and political effectiveness develop?
Inspired by the form of the Cinétracts of 1968, Theater, Film and Media Studies students investigated the film aesthetics of resistance. Main questions included visibility and opacity: Which strategies do queer, feminist, and ecological movements develop to navigate between transparency and protection? (Katharina Müller, Anna Dohnalek / Translation: Ted Fendt)
Since 2018, the Film Museum has dedicated itself to artistic research in collaboration with different universities. The focus is on examining film in all its dimensions. The results are presented publicly and free-of-charge each semester in the Invisible Cinema.
How can filmic protest be more than mere documentation? What spaces does the camera create, which dynamics does it bump into? How do moving images generate empathy and solidarity? And how can critical distance and political effectiveness develop?
Inspired by the form of the Cinétracts of 1968, Theater, Film and Media Studies students investigated the film aesthetics of resistance. Main questions included visibility and opacity: Which strategies do queer, feminist, and ecological movements develop to navigate between transparency and protection? (Katharina Müller, Anna Dohnalek / Translation: Ted Fendt)
Since 2018, the Film Museum has dedicated itself to artistic research in collaboration with different universities. The focus is on examining film in all its dimensions. The results are presented publicly and free-of-charge each semester in the Invisible Cinema.
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For each series, films are listed in screening order.