The moving image has irrevocably redefined our experience and
construction of history. In the contemporary economy of time, history
has become an image in motion, a series of events animated and performed
through various media. Analyzing a variety of films, video pieces, and
performances, Sven Lütticken evaluates the impact that our changing
experience of time has had on the actualization of history in the
present. In the process, he considers the role of shock and suspense, of
play and games, the rise and ubiquity of television, transformed notions
of leisure and labor time, and a new "natural history" marked by climate
change.
The interplay between the time of daily life and historical time end
between live event and mediatization is at the core of History in
Motion. In this context, Lütticken questions the relation between the
representations or restagings of the past and the events of a history
that is currently in progress. This history in motion constitutes a
fractured present in which possible futures are implicit.