Slavoj Žižek

A slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek (his picture is taken form his website) gave a lecture in Kiasma today, titeled Cinema and ideology: report from battleground. He talked about ideology – he described it as an invisible background noise that is never spoken about, but is rather everything that stays between the lines and compared it to consciously codified scenes from famous Holywood movies (Casablanca had quite a leading role in his talk). He was provocative, interesting, funny and gave us a lot to think about. After the lecture there was a screening of his movie in three parts Perverts guide to cinema. I sure won’t look at David Lynch’s movies the same way as I used to anymore:)