LECTURE SERIES

CELLULOID NO MORE | Lecture 4: Framing Globalism and Capitalism through Cinema: TIME IS LUCK

 

MON 23 MARCH, 19:30
Lumière Cinema, Bassin 88, Maastricht

Hugo Emmerzael
Film Critic & Journalist

 

Our relationship with time and space has been undergoing profound changes since the rise of the internet. The synchronicity of a globalized, internet-driven world determines the pace and rhythm of life. Meanwhile, neoliberal globalist capitalism weighs heavily on the political structures that dominate the world. Cinema captures the unrest and tension of this era and reflects, in a fascinating way, on our shifted perception of time and space.

In this fourth lecture, we use digital cinema as a critical reflection on time, capitalism, and globalism. We examine how films visualize the vortex of time, how global power structures are captured on screen, and how cinema challenges the capitalist system from within. A special focus in this lecture is devoted to the work of Michael Mann, and in particular his undervalued masterpiece Miami Vice (2006), one of the purest reflections on the chaotic flux of the 21st century.

 

The individual lectures:

1. The Digital Revolution: Attack of the Pixels (2 Mar)
2. Endless Possibilities: The New Frontier of Digital Cinema (9 Mar)
3. Unfriended: Cinema’s Tense Relationship with the Internet (16 Mar)
4. Framing Globalism and Capitalism through Cinema: TIME IS LUCK (23 Mar)

Cost of the whole series / individual lectures
UM students: €8 / €2.50
UM employees and students from other schools: €20 / €6.25
Others €40 / €12.50

In conjunction with this lecture series, we are presenting one screening of Miami Vice, on Wednesday 25 March, along with a video introduction by Hugo Emmerzael. Tickets for the screening are available through www.lumiere.nl. Those attending the lecture series get a reduction.