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Contretemps. Taking and re-taking of filmed images in an authoritarian regime
The images produced by communist regimes (the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe) and military dictatorships (Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal, the Greece of the colonels) have many similarities, although the propaganda proposes an inverse relationship to historical times: while communist regimes advocate the destruction of the ‘old’ world and glorify the emergence of a ‘new’ society, dictatorships celebrate the ‘return’ to an immemorial order. The similarity, however, lies in the fact that these equally authoritarian regimes claim to have put an end to history: the reality presented thus obscures the actual exercise of power.
The colloquium aims more specifically at the study of the temporality of the official image-sounds where the same sports events, rallies or stereotyped speeches are repeated ad nauseam – all representations of a perpetual order which would have overcome the unpredictability of history. Their reassembly obviously induces more complex temporal effects: they allow events to be reinscribed in a history or to reveal what authoritarian regimes tried to conceal.