Film series WS 2025-26: Film and Revenge in Weimar and Kassel - Grizzly Man (2005), dir: Werner Herzog

In "The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility", Walter Benjamin attributed a specific affinity to the phenomenon of revenge to film. He formulated the thesis that the film actor "takes revenge" for the working masses, who "must divest themselves of their humanity for the duration of the working day", through the film apparatus. The reification of working people can, according to Benjamin's thesis, only be avenged through a different use of the reifying apparatus (the film apparatus).

Inspired by this consideration of Benjamin's, we would like to turn to three films that each deal with the phenomenon of revenge in a different context: feminist revenge, class revenge and the revenge of nature.

Announcement of the film series here.

All events are free of charge and take place in Kassel at the Kiez-Kino in Erzbergerstraße 12.