Seminar and Interdisciplinary Dialogue between the Film Academy Vienna & the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
In this teaching-research seminar, we analyze and discuss historical as well as current feminist film-aesthetic strategies. The focus is on materialist-feminist and intersectional critical approaches that examine the interlinking of aesthetic forms with societal relations of production and power. This perspective includes a critique of capitalism dimension that specifically interrogates the conditions of artistic production, the valorization logics of aesthetic labor, and the emancipatory potentials of critical practices. The aim is to understand how filmic and artistic works not only represent social relations but produce and reproduce them—and how they simultaneously open up possibilities for intervention to critique and transform dominant relations.