L'argent, 1928 (fonte: Kino Arsenal)
Há alguns meses, a propósito do famoso livro de Stéphane Hessel, a Deutsche Oper organizou espectáculos com o título "Indignai-vos!", onde se dava exemplos de compositores que transformaram em música a sua indignação política.
Agora é a vez de, no âmbito do projecto de investigação "Culturas da Loucura", o cinema Arsenal apresentar uma série de filmes subordinados ao tema "Insânia Especulativa". Passo aqui o programa completo, chamando a atenção para o último filme desta série: O Banqueiro Anarquista!
Do programa: O Banqueiro Anarquista é um filme baseado na novela com o mesmo nome do poeta português Fernando Pessoa, escrita em 1922. A personagem principal de Pessoa foi inspirada por Alves dos Reis, o negociante que quase levou o Estado português à bancarrota, devido a uma fraude que arrasou a confiança na moeda nacional, o Escudo. O vídeo mostra o diálogo entre o banqueiro e o seu secretário num talkshow da TV. O diálogo original foi adaptado ao neoliberalismo contemporâneo e à crise de 2008.
Speculative Insanity. Between Economic Rationality and Media Imagination
The greater the risk, the greater the profit. This principle is above all based on the trading of financial derivatives. Increasing capital for its own sake is always speculative, given that it builds on confidence in future prices. If these prices fall sharply, the system collapses. Yet as in the most recent bank crises, the state springs to its defense and covers the losses. The stock exchange can thus be seen as the location of a speculative insanity of both an individual and collective nature, with the individual semantics of this institution and its actors representing different facets of the "magic of the modern financial world."
From its very beginning, film was the perfect medium for staging areas of mass society which resist a truly rational order and predictability, in which game-playing, lust and the imaginary interfere with trading.
This film series curated by Florian Wüst, a project by the Goethe Institute and the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin, examines the relationship between the stock exchange, money and cinema before the backdrop of the economic, social and technical developments of the 20th Century.
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Marcel L'Herbiers' monumental silent film L'ARGENT (1928) was hugely lavishly mounted for the time, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Emile Zola in which the unscrupulous speculator and financier Saccard seeks to use all the powers at his disposal to increase the stock price of his bank.
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The short film program, which includes films by Zachary Formwalt, Hans Richter and Vermeir & Heiremans, moves from early photos of the London Stock Exchange to take in post-war automation processes all the way to contemporary increases in the value of luxury real estate due to art.
-- INFLATION Hans Richter D 1928 3‘
-- ROUND & ROUND Jam Handy Organization USA 1939 OF 6‘
-- DIE HEINZELMÄNNCHEN Gerhard Fieber BRD 1962 11‘
-- MALARIA: GELD-MONEY Brigitte Bühler & Dieter Hormel BRD 1983 4‘
-- IN PLACE OF CAPITAL Zachary Formwalt NL 2009 OF 24‘
-- THE GOOD LIFE (A GUIDED TOUR) Vermeir & Heiremans B 2009 OF 16‘
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Peter Krieg's three-part documentary DIE SEELE DES GELDES links a critical analysis of Third World Debt in the 1970s ands 80s to digressions about colonialism and money, religion and the psyche.
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-- DAS NEUE WERKZEUG Walter Koch BRD 1962 12‘
-- WELL DONE Thomas Imbach CH 1994 75‘
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-- NICHT OHNE RISIKO Harun Farocki D 2004 OmE 52‘
-- THE ANARCHIST BANKER Jan Peter Hammer D 2010 engl. OF 30‘
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