Please join us on Friday, January 27th at 10AM in LOGAN 201 [Please note alternative location] for our second Winter Quarter meeting of the Mass Culture Workshop. This week we are delighted to welcome Tom Gunning, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and Art History & Travis Preston, Dean of Theater at The California Institute of the Arts. Our guests this week are gracing us with a sneak preview of their collaborative theater project, “Fantômas: Revenge of the Image.”
Reading materials, courtesy of Tom Gunning, are entirely optional this week, but include a talk delivered on Fantômas and an outline of the project itself. As always, please do not distribute these without permission. The link is here.
Please email either Katerina Korola [katerinakorola@uchicago.edu] or Dave Burnham [burnham@uchicago.edu] for the password.
Refreshments will be provided.
We look forward to seeing you at the workshop!
Your coordinators,
Katerina Korola and Dave Burnham
Fantômas – Revenge of the Image: a Preview
Scheduled to premiere this coming October at a theater festival in China, the work involves an experimental approach to the zone between theater and cinema, employing a mobile seating unit to create a transforming imagistic space. All the texts (primarily based in French symbolist and surrealist works) will be spoken by one voice, while a group of actors (including Mirjana Jokovic, known most prominently for her work in the films of Emir Kusturica) interact in and expanded field, mediated by a mobile view, framed through an aperture. Themes of violence and terror explore the figure of Fantômas and the roots of urban terror from the French serial to the Master criminals of the Weimar era.