The Cinema of Robert Kramer. An Essay Concerning Love

Authors

  • Raquel Schefer Departamento de Historia. Facultad de Artes. Universidad del Western Cape

Keywords:

Robert Kramer, political film, self-referential film forms, essay film

Abstract

Mapping Robert Kramer’s filmography and four of its titles —Ice (1969), Scenes from theClass Struggle in Portugal (1977/79), Berlin 10/90 (1990) and Ghosts of Electricity (1997)—,the paper focuses on the articulations between politics and subjectivity. As it interweaves artand life, Kramer’s essayistic oeuvre constitutes a fertile ground to analyze the destructurationof the film forms and the self-referential turn of political film. The article examines how theemergence of self-referential forms in Kramer’s cinema overturned the categories traditionallyassociated with the systems of representation of documentary and militant film.

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2019-06-26

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Schefer, R. (2019). The Cinema of Robert Kramer. An Essay Concerning Love. Arkadin, (7), 19–32. Retrieved from https://papelcosido.fba.unlp.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/arkadin/article/view/646

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No. 7 (2018): Arkadin 7

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Tema central

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