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A Meditation on God and Cruelty
Director: Jaap de Vries
Country: NL
Year: 2004
Length: 40 minutes
Language: english
What only few people seem to realize is that cinema is also a distinctly philosophical art: it poses the same questions as philosophy, but does so in a much more succinct, physical and, therefore, more accessible way. Bruno Dumont
A Meditation on God and Cruelty, a film by Jaap de Vries, dissects in a space of forty minutes the deluge of images we are bombarded with by an audiovisual industry which has developed its own laws to make sure we do not run away from what is being shown. This industry offers music that is not music, violence that is not violence, pornography that does not really want to depict smut, and question-posing which does not really pose questions.
The final editing of A Meditation took place just a few weeks before pictures emerged that put an obscene light on the activities of American soldiers in the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, and pictures of the cruel execution of the American soldier Nicholas Berg, butchered before the eye of the camera.
The film does not show how we dream, it shows the collective fever dream, touted night after night on television screens, and it shows what this nightmare looks like when its staging turns away from an imagology that has become common property. Looking at it this way, the film is indeed not only an forensic investigation, but faithful to its title, and for those who wish to accept it above all a meditation on the most extreme (pain) levels of our imagination, and therefore also a meditation on cruelty and God.
Country: NL
Year: 2004
Length: 40 minutes
Language: english
What only few people seem to realize is that cinema is also a distinctly philosophical art: it poses the same questions as philosophy, but does so in a much more succinct, physical and, therefore, more accessible way. Bruno Dumont
A Meditation on God and Cruelty, a film by Jaap de Vries, dissects in a space of forty minutes the deluge of images we are bombarded with by an audiovisual industry which has developed its own laws to make sure we do not run away from what is being shown. This industry offers music that is not music, violence that is not violence, pornography that does not really want to depict smut, and question-posing which does not really pose questions.
Screening:
Thursday Sept. 10th 22.00 h. Electron Upper theatre
Thursday Sept. 10th 22.00 h. Electron Upper theatre
trailer
The final editing of A Meditation took place just a few weeks before pictures emerged that put an obscene light on the activities of American soldiers in the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, and pictures of the cruel execution of the American soldier Nicholas Berg, butchered before the eye of the camera.
The film does not show how we dream, it shows the collective fever dream, touted night after night on television screens, and it shows what this nightmare looks like when its staging turns away from an imagology that has become common property. Looking at it this way, the film is indeed not only an forensic investigation, but faithful to its title, and for those who wish to accept it above all a meditation on the most extreme (pain) levels of our imagination, and therefore also a meditation on cruelty and God.
Screening:
Thursday Sept. 10th 22.00 h. Electron Upper theatre
Thursday Sept. 10th 22.00 h. Electron Upper theatre
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