Atlas / Constelaciones

The movie on DVD Constellations It is an attempt to think through images about some central concepts of the work of the German philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). A collection of audiovisual quotations, film scenes, photographs, paintings, sound recordings, animations, historical documents… articulated with significant texts, Constellations reproduces a strategy, based on collage and montage, that Benjamin himself developed in various works. Almost all of the materials used have some kind of historiographical anchor in his ideas or his life.

El Walter Benjamin AtlasThe Atlas, for its part, is a CD-ROM tool that allows users to navigate a collection of texts linked by hyperlinks. Its aim is to reveal some of the major threads of meaning running through Benjamin's thought, threads that are often difficult to discern in his characteristically heterogeneous and less academic writing. The Atlas is based on a selection of over 1.200 concepts that occupied Walter Benjamin's thoughts and more than 900 fragments covering very different themes and periods. In this way, it proposes a dialogic mapping that complements the traditional reading of his work. Both discs are accompanied by an essay or "reading proposal" by César Rendueles and Ana Useros that reflects on the motifs and references used in the documentary film.