"… I Care Because You Do". Towards a cinema of care

Authors

  • Brigitta Kuster Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2022.158

Keywords:

Care, Gender, Film, Migration, Race

Abstract

Cinema has often been described as the place where one can see oneself through the eyes of another. It is also the place where one is completely with oneself and yet can be exposed to the most alienating and frightening things. Fundamental divisions and partitions like these serve as starting points for this text to speculate on how differential alterity and care might be made fruitful for the re-visioning of a cinema that is not didactic or enlightening, and certainly not cathartic. Not a cinema that disperses. But one whose meaning consists in everyday caring without being utilitarian. It should be a cinema of care that is more concerned with being made than with being seen by the largest possible audience. Rather than a place for a medium, it should correspond to the arrangement of a remedium.

Author Biography

Brigitta Kuster, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Brigitta Kuster is a cultural producer and cultural scholar. Her current research focuses on the third, militant, accentuated or small cinema as well as the desideratum of new radical post-cinematographic structures and biometric border and identification technologies at the EU's external border. She works as an junior professor for cultural studies film research and gender at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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