Transgressive Cinema- A talk with Professor Marcus Stiglegger, Mainz University

Name: Transgressive Cinema- A talk with Professor Marcus Stiglegger, Mainz University
Start: 2025-11-01T15:00:00+01:00
Location: EWII House

Schedule

Sat, 01 Nov, 2025 at 03:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

EWII House | Kolding, VJ

English Version below.

I foredraget, som vil foregå på engelsk, vil Marcus Stiglegger tale om ”grænseoverskridende filmkunst”- eller Transgressive Cinema.
Der tales meget om grænser i vores kultur og mange kunstnere har været i vanskeligheder og i mediernes søgelys for at have overtrådt en grænse, hvad enten det har været i virkeligheden eller på lærredet. Tænk blot på Lars Von Triers udtalelse om Hitler eller Jørgen Leths skriverier om egne seksuelle udskejelser. Mange film har været set som grænseoverskridende i løbet af filmhistorien og hvad der opleves som grænseoverskridende på film, siger meget om en given kultur. Enhver kultur har nemlig sine egne mere eller mindre definerede grænser, som opstår gennem en form for kollektiv forståelse eller kontrakt. Hvad der foregår eller eksisterer uden for disse grænser er tabu og når kunsten, eksempelvis film, overskrider de grænser en kultur har opsat, opstår der et moment af kollektiv frygt. Professor Marcus Stiglegger vil undersøge dette frygtsomme øjeblik i sit foredrag, som et kreativt mulighedsrum for hvad han kalder ”grænseoverskridende filmkunst”.

Stiglegger spørger indledningsvis hvorfor publikum egentlig søger den grænseoverskridende filmoplevelse. Dernæst vil han undersøge hvordan en række filminstruktørers leg med publikums forventninger om og fetischering af grænseoverskridende billeder og handlinger kan omsættes kreativt. Nogen gange er det grænseoversridende element eksempelvis blevet brugt som fikspunkt i et handlingsforløb, mens det andre gange er blevet brugt som virkemiddel til at tvinge publikum til at gentænke de sociale og kulturelle normer, de tager for givet i deres egen dagligdag. Til slut vil Stiglegger behandle det essentielle og dybereliggende spørgsmål: kan film egentlig være ægte grænseoverskridende, eller kan det levende billedmedie blot vise og formidle den grænseoverskridende handling? Kan film være en ægte indre, tabunedbrydende, oplevelse?

Prof. Dr. Marcus Stiglegger forsker og underviser ved universiteter i Tyskland (Mainz) og internationalt (Østrig, USA, Polen). Hans forskningsinteresser spænder over kropsteori, grænseoverskridelsens filosofi og filmhistorie, mediemytologi, performance i filmkunst og Holocaust i narrative medier. Hans Ph.d. afhandling, ”Sadiconazista” fra 1999, handlede om seksualpolitik i filmmediet og han har siden skrevet og redigeret flere bøger om filmhistorie og æstetik. Han har skrevet om emner og genrer såsom forførelse i filmmediet, genreteori, westerns, krigsfilm, moderne horror og om instruktører såsom David Cronenberg, Dario Argento, Akira Kurosawa, Lucio Fulci og John Carpenter.
Ud over sit forskningsarbejde, har Marcus Stiglegger lavet ekstramateriale til Blu-ray udgivelserne af klassikere som Twin Peaks (1990-1991), Fire Walk With Me (1992), Irreversible (2002) og Angst (1993). Det er altså lidt af en international stjerne og en erfaren formidler, der kommer til Kolding for at holde foredrag.
Dette arrangement er støttet økonomisk af Kolding Kommune.
Marcus Stiglegger spiller senere på dagen med sit musikalske Dark Ambient projekt, Vortex, også på Ewii House.
Der er en lille rabat ved køb af billet til begge arrangementer.
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Billetter:
Forsalg: 60kr+ gebyr, dør 75,-
Foredrag + koncert: 150 + gebyr.
Rabat for studerende og folk under 30 år.
Billet til koncerten alene købes her:
https://ewiihouse.safeticket.dk/110151/Live_Vortex_DE_Destruktionsanstalt_DK_Black_Vault_DK
Info: stiglegger.de
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stiglegger/Vortex (DE)
In this talk, which will be held in english, Marcus Stiglegger will talk about Transgressive Cinema.
There is a lot of talk about boundaries in our culture and many artists have been in trouble and in the media spotlight for having crossed a boundary, whether in reality or on screen. Just think of Lars Von Trier’s statement about Hitler or Jørgen Leth’s writings about his own sexual excesses. Many films have been seen as transgressive throughout the history of cinema and what is experienced as transgressive in film says a lot about a given culture. Every culture has its own more or less defined boundaries, which arise through a form of collective understanding or contract. What happens or exists outside these boundaries is taboo and when art, for example film, transgresses the boundaries a culture has set, a moment of collective fear arises. Professor Marcus Stiglegger will examine this fearful moment in his talk as a creative space of opportunity for what he calls “transgressive cinema”.
Stiglegger begins by asking why audiences seek the transgressive film experience in the first place. He will then examine how several film directors' play with the audience's expectations about and fetishization of transgressive images and actions can be used creatively. Sometimes, for example, the transgressive element has been used as a focal point in plot development, while at other times it has been used to force the audience to rethink the social and cultural norms they take for granted in their daily lives. Finally, Stiglegger will address the essential and deeper question: can film be truly transgressive, or can the medium of moving images only show and represent the transgressive action? Can film truly be an inner, taboo-breaking experience?

Prof. Dr. Marcus Stiglegger is a researcher and lecturer at universities in Germany (Freiburg) and internationally (Austria, USA, Poland). His research interests span across body theory, philosophy of transgression and film history, media mythology, performance in film art and the Holocaust in narrative media. His Ph.D. thesis, “Sadiconazista” (1999), was about sexual politics in the film medium and he has since written and edited several volumes on film history and aesthetics. He has written on topics and genres such as seduction in the film medium, genre theory, westerns, war movies, modern horror and directors such as David Cronenberg, Dario Argento, Akira Kurosawa, Lucio Fulci and John Carpenter. In addition to his research, Marcus Stiglegger is featured in the extra material for the Blu-ray releases of classics such as Twin Peaks (1990-1991), Fire Walk With Me (1992), Irreversible (2002) and Angst (1993).
This event is supported financially by Kolding Kommune.
Marcus Stiglegger will later the same day perform with his dark Ambient Project, Vortex, also at Ewii House.
There is a minor discount if you buy ticekts for both events.
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Tickets:
Presale: 60 dkr+ fee, Door 75 dkr,-
Talk + concert: 150 dkr+ fee.
Discount for students and people under 30.
Info: stiglegger.de
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stiglegger/Vortex (DE)