"The Sacred, The Violent, and Fragments": Lecture by Brian Price and screening of "71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance" November 20, 2008

Brian Price is a professor of English at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater. He is the author of Neither God Nor Master: Robert Bresson and the Modalities of Revolt (Forthcoming, University of Minnesota Press) and the co-editor of On Michael Haneke, with John David Rhodes (Wayne State University Press, forthcoming), and Color, the Film Reader, with Angela Dalle Vacche (Routledge, 2006).

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke, 1995, 96m) is an avant garde film, and this is the final part of Hanenke's "glaciation trilogy," which explores the anger, and coldness of everyday human interactions. Best known for the recently remade Funny Games (1997, 2008), Hanenke is an Austrian filmmaker and among his many awards are prizes at Cannes for Caché (2005), La Pianiste (2001), and Code Inconnu (2000).

Official Website: http://www.ias.umn.edu/collabs08-09/TransnationalFilm.php