In 1976, Wim Wenders’ Kings of the Road redefined the road film, and in the thirty years since, cinema and travel have existed in continuous dialogue. What energies, fantasies, and anxieties are released when film crosses a border or hits the road? How do movies respond to tourism, exile, migration, flight? How are ideas of "nation" and "foreignness" shaped by cinema and what part does it play in globalism?

Join the experts in a day of spirited discussion and debate of Reel Travel.


PROGRAM AGENDA

DOCUMENTS IN DISORDER (9:10a)

Katie Trumpener (Yale)
The Journey to Poland: Helke Misselwitz's Foreign Oder and the Posterity of GDR Documentary

David Kazanjian (Penn)
Handwork: Beyond Egoyan's Ararat

PERIPATETICS OF DISPLACEMENT (11:15a)

Short Videos and Conversation with Conceptual Artist Kinga Araya

TRAVELS WITH MICHAEL HANEKE (1:15p)

Imke Meyer (Bryn Mawr)
Empire's Remains: Displacement and Historical Memory in Michael Haneke's Le Temps du loup

Fatima Naqvi (Rutgers)
Hiding Places: Migration and Space in Michael Haneke's Films

IN THE COURSE OF TIME: TRAVEL, CINEMA, MEDIA (3:20p)

Gerd Gemünden (Dartmouth)
Wenders Revisited

Rod Coover (Temple)
Characters, Paths, and Panoramas; New Media Tools and the Displacements of the Cinematic Journey