Author Vinzenz Hediger

Vinzenz Hediger

Vinzenz Hediger is professor of cinema studies at Goethe Universität Frankfurt where he directs the Graduate Research Training Program “Configurations of film” (www.konfigurationen-des-films.de), as well as the research projects CEDITRAA – Cultural Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation in Africa and Asia (www.ceditraa.net) and VICTOR-E – Visual Culture of Trauma, Obliteration and Reconstruction in Post-War Europe (www.victor-e.eu). With Rembert Hüser he is the editor of Jean-Luc Godard. Film Denken nach der Geschichte des Kinos (München: Fink, 2022)

Not the animal is blind, but the human being, blinded by consciousness and incapable of seeing the world. A Note on Roxy Miéville, Star of Jean-Luc Godard’s First Animal Picture, Adieu au Langage

Vinzenz Hediger

January 2022

Forms That Think: Jean-Luc Godard

“With all of their eyes, animals behold openness.” – Rainer Maria Rilke, The Eight Duino Elegy (trans. Alfred Corn) “The meaning of the dog is the dog.” – Andrei Tarkovski In the general excitement over...