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Lebensraum (abstract)

Monday 10th of November 2008

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Lebensraum is simultaneously a feature film, a series of interconnected research processes and a feedback loop discussion. At the heart of the project is a meeting between an anthropologist Ger Duijzings and experimental filmmaker Rastko Novakovic - it is an ongoing discussion on the production of social space, witnessing and the archive. Lebensraum aims to present and not merely represent a series of mobilities: 1) the series of movements that G.D. made through a disintegrating Yugoslavia during six months in 1992 and which have been documented in his diary from that time which was edited to form a "dramatic archive"; 2) the 75 minute event/performance that G. D. made while performing the script, starting from his London office and performing a derive followed by nine cameras through the surrounding streets - the "lived archive" of the body of the witness performing the textual archive; 3) the event as an interruption in the fabric of London and vice versa; 4) the cinematographic (writing-in-movement) record of that event which presents the multiple perspectives of "cinematographic intentionality"; 5) the movement between "here" and "elsewhere" which is at the heart of cinematic displacement: between the space of the auditorium and the screen; between social and cinematic space; between the London of 2008 presented as a material archive of urban histories (and its specific history of urban conflict) and the Yugoslavia of 1992 presented as a textual archive of em/migration, social spaces, and media representations.

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