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Dislokationen des Bildes – Bewegter Bildraum, haptisches Sehen und die Herstellung von Wirklichkeit

Driving sequences in movies open up new modes of viewing beyond the traditional linear dramatical structure. In the niche of these images of the filmic ride one encounters a returning of the medium of cinema to its origins within a non-narrative experience of the image. They question our assumptions of space perception, image and haptic experience. In reflecting on these images, Walter Benjamins concept of ›aura‹ comes into play as well as debates about and concepts of seeing, visuality, aesthetic immersion and the picture as performative subject, as one can for example find in the works of theorists like Georges Didi-Huberman, Jean-Luc Nancy, Rudolf Arnheim and others.