Snowpiercer

Content:

Earth in the near future: ice and snow cover the planet. No more life is stirring. Only a lonely train traveling through the deserted snowy landscape offers the surviving humans protection from the deadly cold. But the majority of the remaining humanity lives in eternal darkness at the back of the train, while the few rich passengers at the front revel in luxury. But a revolution is imminent. Science fiction thriller based on the graphic novel "Schneekreuzer".

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 aberrations of the law and ask what contribution films can make to visualizing and critically reflecting on developments in our present.