“Everything Stays Down Where It’s Wounded”
- Autor(en)
- Stephan Trinkaus
- Abstrakt
This chapter brings together Alma Har’el’s film Bombay Beach, which documents life in the ruins of a former holiday paradise by California’s Salton Sea, with the non-localizable toxicity of Pfiesteria piscicida, a microorganism that was held responsible for mass fish deaths in the East Coast of the USA, as well as the psychoanalytical theory of dream-space by Masud Khan, a student of Winnicott. The film develops a filmic ecology that is in the position to stop the toxic traces of non-directionality and non-localizability of its protagonists’ lives, without overcoming the linear causality of the external world. Documenting here does not mean recording something, fixing it, and conveying what is already there, but partaking in an ecological toxicity, allowing yourself to be poisoned by the ghosts of the Salton Sea.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft
- Seiten
- 75-86
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64909-2_5
- Publikationsdatum
- 2017
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 603124 Wissenschaftstheorie, 605004 Kulturwissenschaft
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Cultural Studies, Communication, Literature and Literary Theory, Linguistics and Language
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/d41ab8cb-36db-44f7-94ee-61ee69bd041e