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Jaqcues Rancière And Pedro Costa
29.10.2026—30.10.2026Jaqcues Rancière And Pedro Costa
Encounters
Jaqcues Rancière And Pedro Costa
29.10.2026—30.10.2026Jaqcues Rancière And Pedro Costa
filmmaker Pedro Costa and philosopher Jacques Rancière.
The encounter of the Emancipated Spectators
Jacques Rancière And Pedro Costa
Event
29.10.2026-30.10.2026
Tickets
€10 — €30, get tickets
Location
1. West Den Haag in the former. American embassy, Lange Voorhout 102
2. Cinema Pathé Buitenhof, Buitenhof 20
Join us at West Den Haag on October 29th & 30th, 2026 for the encounter of the Emancipated Spectators, a special two-day program exploring the democratic power of cinema with philosopher Jacques Rancière and acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Costa. The program is grounded in Rancière’s contention that all people are equally intelligent and that cinema, by elevating the everyday, opens up a radically democratic field of expression and reception of art.
The event features screenings of Costa’s deeply evocative films, a special conversation between Rancière and Costa and an intensive workshop session with Rancière on his works ‘Emancipated Spectator’ and ‘Film Fables’. Jacques Rancière has a fundamental commitment in which all people are assumed at the outset to be equally intelligent, and the ethical position is to discover how intelligence functions in the other person, and to learn how to appreciate the other’s unfamiliar imagination.
Cinema, for Rancière, is a supremely democratic art form. In cinema we have a context which can transform the every day, the fall of light on a table or a face, into a supremely aesthetic experience. Validating the everyday in this way means that cinema provides an art experience not only 'available to everyone' but that everyone has it in them to be an artist, by seeing their own experience of the world raised to the level of art.
One of the film-makers who epitomise Rancière’s interest in cinema is Pedro Costa. His films are spare and quiet, letting the people and locations that appear, tell their own stories, deep stories which resonate with the living legacies of colonialism in his precarious and marginalized subjects.
In our special 2-day encounter 'Emancipated Spectators' participants will immerse in these deep reflections on contemporary reality and the prospects of humanity and its arts. Accompanying screenings of Pedro Costa’s films we will host a special conversational encounter between Jacques Rancière and Pedro Costa on whom the former has written extensively.
Jacques Rancière And Pedro Costa
Event
Tickets
Location
2. Cinema Pathé Buitenhof, Buitenhof 20
Join us at West Den Haag on October 29th & 30th, 2026 for the encounter of the Emancipated Spectators, a special two-day program exploring the democratic power of cinema with philosopher Jacques Rancière and acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Costa. The program is grounded in Rancière’s contention that all people are equally intelligent and that cinema, by elevating the everyday, opens up a radically democratic field of expression and reception of art.
The event features screenings of Costa’s deeply evocative films, a special conversation between Rancière and Costa and an intensive workshop session with Rancière on his works ‘Emancipated Spectator’ and ‘Film Fables’. Jacques Rancière has a fundamental commitment in which all people are assumed at the outset to be equally intelligent, and the ethical position is to discover how intelligence functions in the other person, and to learn how to appreciate the other’s unfamiliar imagination.
Cinema, for Rancière, is a supremely democratic art form. In cinema we have a context which can transform the every day, the fall of light on a table or a face, into a supremely aesthetic experience. Validating the everyday in this way means that cinema provides an art experience not only 'available to everyone' but that everyone has it in them to be an artist, by seeing their own experience of the world raised to the level of art.
One of the film-makers who epitomise Rancière’s interest in cinema is Pedro Costa. His films are spare and quiet, letting the people and locations that appear, tell their own stories, deep stories which resonate with the living legacies of colonialism in his precarious and marginalized subjects.
In our special 2-day encounter 'Emancipated Spectators' participants will immerse in these deep reflections on contemporary reality and the prospects of humanity and its arts. Accompanying screenings of Pedro Costa’s films we will host a special conversational encounter between Jacques Rancière and Pedro Costa on whom the former has written extensively.