Specters of Colonialism - Sven Augustijnen's Haunted Cinema
Specters of Colonialism - Sven Augustijnen's Haunted Cinema

Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes Sven Agustijnen's Specters from the philosophical perspective. He tries to prove that the cinema of Belgian director is haunted because it presents the reality as made out of traces, which disturb the traditional division into presence and absence. The author analyzes the Augustijnen's film techniques and uses Jacques Derrida hauntology to show, how contemporary cinema tries to face the difficult and unfinished colonial history of Belgium (the genocide in Congo during the reign of the Belgian king Leopold II and the murder of the first prime minister of theindependent Congo, Patrice Lumumba).

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