The World Rewound
The World Rewound
Wittgenstein Tractatus
This chapter focuses on Péter Forgács’s remarkable film Wittgenstein Tractatus (1992). The film endorses the particular capacity of film to re-view the world as seen (or found) by us: it is as much a filmic meditation on Wittgenstein’s thoughts about world picturing as it is a Wittgensteinian meditation on cinematic or other pictorializations of our knowledge of the world. As a collation of filmed footage, the film is an elusive montage of ordinary but often suggestive and unsettling images. Almost all of them were derived by Forgács in public collections and private archives in Hungary. They are accompanied by subtitles, voice-overs, and interleaved titles entirely drawn from writings by Wittgenstein. The film presents itself as an engagement with Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Keywords: Péter Forgács, film, Wittgenstein Tractatus, meditation, cinematic, public collection, private archives, Hungary
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