Gattaca

Content:
Gattaca depicts a future in which a person's fate seems to be determined by their genes. "Valids" enjoy privileges, while "invalids" live on the margins of society. Vincent, born despite genetic "defects", dreams of traveling as an astronaut. With the help of a stolen identity, he deceives the strict controls of the space agency Gattaca. As he gets closer to his goal, the pressure of surveillance grows and the danger of being exposed increases.

Background:

What happens when (criminal) law becomes an uncontrolled instrument of power? What does the unpredictability of law mean for the individual? What does totalitarian rule look like? And what media of surveillance and control are used?
This film series focuses on cinematic dystopias of (criminal) law: from "The Trial" and "1984" to "Brazil", "Minority Report", "Gattaca", "Children of Men" and "Snowpiercer". The medium of film makes visible what is difficult to convey in legal texts: the omnipresence of surveillance, the fragility of freedom and the powerlessness of the individual.
The series is a cooperation between the law and media studies departments and the municipal cinema of the vhs bochum and endstation.kino. Together we will analyze cinematic perspectives on derailments of the law and ask what contribution films can make to making visible and critically reflecting on developments in our present.

Admission is 6.00 euros.