Aslaug Holm: Brothers

The Real of Reality | International Conference on Philosophy and
Film


Wed, 02.11.2016 – Sun, 06.11.2016
ZKM_Media Theater, ZKM_Lecture Hall, ZKM_Media Lounge, ZKM_Cube


Aslaug Holm is a Norwegian filmmaker and cinematographer. She has
made a number of shorts and documentaries and has founded the
production company Fenris Film with her husband Tore Buvarp. She
was the director and cinematographer of »Rich Country« (2006) for
which she won the FIPRESCI prize, cinematographer and editor of
»Cool and Crazy« (2001), which was awarded as best European
documentary 2001.
Just recently Holm became the first documentary filmmaker to win
Norway’s Amanda Award for best directing, for her compelling
documentary »Brothers« (2015), which has now played theatrically
in Norway for almost six months. In this personal film, shot over
a period of five years and recalling Richard
Linklater’s »Boyhood«, Holm is documenting her two sons
growing up in Oslo. An experienced cinematographer and
documentary filmmaker, Holm is now writing fiction.


International Conference on Philosophy and Film
Photography and film in particular paved the way for complex
philosophical questions regarding the nature of reality and its
mechanical reproduction. What does film reproduce and how can we
grasp this element, which has the transactive ability to form
reality although originating in reality? This shaping takes palce
through a complex interaction of image, action and narration and
tends to permeate reality completely. It is an inconspicuous
process that already affects our everyday life profoundly and is
based on a revolution of the real. What does film show? Do we
have access to reality that is not based on images or narrations?
And what can film and its analysis contribute to philosophical
debates on the real?
These are questions we are asking to engage in a dialogue between
philosophy and film. For five days, one hundred and fifty
philosophers, media scholars and filmmakers will connect
philosophical theory with cinematic practice and open up new
ideas and concepts. To accompany the program, there will be film
screenings of documentaries of the invited filmmakers.
The participation at the conference is also possible without the
presentation of a paper.
The conference will be held in English.