Christian Petzold: A Dossier Jaimey Fisher and Marco Abel September 2017 Christian Petzold: A Dossier Who is Petzold? If one were to pose this eponymous question – a self-evident one at the start of this Dossier on the German director Christian Petzold – the year 2016 might help bring an answer into notably sh...
Moving Portraits: Christian Petzold and The Art of Portraiture Jasmin Krakenberg September 2017 Christian Petzold: A Dossier While most filmmakers use movement as their primary currency, Christian Petzold seems to favors stasis. In Petzold scholarship, movement has received a fair amount of attention. One undertheorized aspect is thi...
“A Place without Parents”: Queer and Maternal Desire in the Films of Christian Petzold Joy Castro September 2017 Christian Petzold: A Dossier The essay discloses Petzold's interest in the ways in which the planned obsolescence integral to regimes of neoliberal production and consumption is inscribed onto the function of the female body within a heter...
“The Protestant Method” Christoph Hochhäusler September 2017 Christian Petzold: A Dossier Christian. A popular name for people of his generation. The competitive ambition to make a name for himself is a defining feature. He has curly hair, black Medusa-snakes for which, as someone who has rather blo...
“Das ist vorbei”: Untimely Encounters with Neoliberalism in Christian Petzold’s dffb Student Films Marco Abel September 2017 Christian Petzold: A Dossier Harun (Farocki’s) premise was the insight that we do not even have any new images of capitalism yet. Sure, we have these airport boarding zones, where we see modern people with laptops, reading high-gloss magaz...
Ghosts and their Prices: Surveillance and Image Economies in Christian Petzold’s Cinema William Mahan September 2017 Christian Petzold: A Dossier This essay examines Christian Petzold’s lesser-known, early films of the 90s in their depiction of the German economy’s impact on individuals’ image-perception and then takes up his better-known film Die innere...
No Time Like the Present: The Edges of the World in Christian Petzold’s Barbara Brad Prager September 2017 Christian Petzold: A Dossier The source for Christian Petzold’s Barbara (2012) is generally taken to be Hermann Broch’s novella Barbara (1936), with which it indeed shares some similarities, yet the film’s plot and themes closely parallel ...
The Cinema is a Warehouse of Memory: A Conversation Among Christian Petzold, Robert Fischer, and Jaimey Fisher Jaimey Fisher and Robert Fischer September 2017 Christian Petzold: A Dossier Translated by Jaimey Fisher This conversation among writer/director Christian Petzold, senior programmer Robert Fischer, and Prof. Jaimey Fisher of University of California, Davis was part of the “Filmmaker Li...
The Texture of History: Petzold’s Barbara and The Lives of Others Roger Cook September 2017 Christian Petzold: A Dossier The essay examines how Petzold evokes an embodied mode of spectatorship as part of a strategy to counter the approach to history taken by von Donnersmarck. Critics have observed that Petzold’s first historical ...
Petzold’s Phoenix, Fassbinder’s Maria Braun, and the Melodramatic Archaeology of the Rubble Past Jaimey Fisher September 2017 Christian Petzold: A Dossier The Benjaminian Writings on the Wall and Petzold’s Archaeology of Genre In an early scene in Christian Petzold’s 2015 Phoenix, protagonist Nelly Lenz lies in a hospital bed as her friend Lene Winter lists fami...
