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Wim Wenders is a German film director, producer, photographer and
writer. His internationally renowned films include Alice in the Cities, Kings
of the Road, The American Friend, Paris,Texas, Wings of Desire, Until the End of
the World, Buena Vista Social Club and many others. His groundbreaking 3D
film Pina was nominated at the Academy Awards for Best Documentary
in 2012. Wenders is president of the European Film Academy. He teaches
film as a professor at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg.
INVENTING
PEACE a dialogue on per ception
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Wim Wenders
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Notes 196
Bibliography 204
Select Filmography 213
Acknowledgements 216
encounters
On the eve of the second Gulf War in 2003 much of the world divided itself
along the lines of good versus evil, war versus peace. The repercussions of
9/11 were still felt as the sequence of events unfolded and public dialogue
and any hopeful diplomacy had evaporated. At that time, I had finished a
book on hope; the book posed a series of questions and considered hope
in everyday life and politics, but as events started to unfold, the question
of peace arose with urgency.1 A moral sensibility and vocabulary of what
peace might mean were absent from the public debate just as much as they
have been largely absent from history.
During this time, I had been invited to give a public talk at a Sydney event.
The audience were hostile to my reflections on hope, my questioning of the
looming war. I felt like a sacrificial lamb to slaughter, the violence contained
in the audience was directed toward me, much like the sacrificial violence
that humans can so readily manufacture in times of war.
Many in the Sydney audience felt I was deluded in talking about ideas of
hope and peace in such circumstances of perceived evil and threat; the event
connexions3
Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel
Ordnungen? und gesetzt selbst, es nähme
einer mich plötzlich ans Herz: ich verginge von seinem
stärkeren Dasein. Denn das Schöne ist nichts
als des Schrecklichen Anfang, den wir noch grade ertragen,
und wir bewundern es so, weil es gelassen verschmäht,
uns zu zerstören. Ein jeder Engel ist schrecklich.4
Much like a prayer, Rilke’s elegies resonate with the memory of the
eternal as well as marking the sacred as pre-eminently real; that is, the poetry
gives us a feel for both mystical encounters and first-hand experience. This
experience might be the difference between ‘to know’ and ‘to understand’.
As Otto suggests, the mysterious quality of the sacred is by no means
tantamount to ‘unknowableness’; however, we might say that knowing peace
in this regard has yet to ‘passeth understanding’.5
To talk about the sacred today is to consider the time and space in which
value and meaning take shape; we are aware of the paradoxes that can
emerge from such a statement. For instance, we are not writing about
the holy and ‘holy wars’; rather we are considering how the sacred is the
bridge between the worlds of violence and the worlds of peace. There is a
difference between theological imperialism and the sacred as a reckoning
that challenges our cultural habits. This reckoning evolves through stories,
images and perceptions that can encourage different ways of seeing the
world and different ways of understanding peace.
Quintessentially, peace is the imagining of a different world, but a world
that already surrounds us – it is the making and unmaking of ritual and
tradition in our everyday lives inasmuch as it is holy and sacred. It involves
‘becoming aware’ as the philosopher Martin Buber would put it. This
becoming aware is a special kind of observation or of looking at the world
that involves compassion, grace and care. The everyday and the holy involve
a care toward the future, this care involves an ethics that is founded in the
relations between the infinite and the everyday.
English-born author Aldous Huxley suggests that revolutionary talk or
philosophy identifying the world or the ‘spiritual’ as solely future oriented
cannot provide the conditions for liberty and peace. Huxley writes,
The peace that passes all understanding is the fruit of liberation into
eternity; but in its ordinary everyday form peace is also the root
of liberation. For where there are violent passions and compelling
distractions, this ultimate good can never be realized.That is one of the
reasons why the policy of correlated eternity-philosophies is tolerant
and non-violent.The other reason is that the eternity, whose realization
is the ultimate good, is a kingdom of heaven within. Thou art That; and
though That is immortal and impassible, the killing and torturing of
individual ‘thous’ is a matter of cosmic significance, inasmuch as it
interferes with the normal and natural relationship between individual
souls and the divine eternal Ground of all being. Every violence is, over
and above everything else, a sacrilegious rebellion against the divine
order.6
From our encounters and investigations into peace it seems that much
of the hindrance to peace revolves around the question of how we look
at the world but do not see it when there is so much violence, injustice and
suffering. Ours is the century of the image as never before. There are so
many images circulating the globe with ever increasing speed that we look
at all the time, but we do not have the means or the skills any more to see.
What are the ethical and moral consequences of looking but not seeing?
We consider this question as one of the fundamental questions of our
times.
French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty once noted that the subject
of perception is the subject of power; in other words, how we see is what
prescribes the ethical and power relations that constitute our everyday and
social worlds. More precisely, he writes,
reality. At a fundamental level, the images, rites and rituals that we create
provide the conditions for peace in a worldly sense, how we might live and
inhabit this world, and how we might imagine it. As Durkheim puts it,
The ideal society is not outside the real society; it is part of it. Far
from being torn between them, as between two mutually repellent
poles, we cannot insist on one without insisting on the other. For
a society is not simply constituted by the mass of individuals who
compose it, by the land they occupy, by the things they use, by the
movements they make, but above all by the idea that it fashions of
itself.9
conversations
That our first conversations were initially born out of new technologies
– through the internet and email exchanges – makes us think of a new
generation of messengers and angels. French philosopher Michel Serres’
book Angels: A Modern Myth looks at the possibilities of technology and
new communication networks today.10 Serres explains the necessity of
considering angels and their images throughout history as just as relevant in
today’s technological worlds and messages. He writes that today message-
bearers are brought about by the science of new technologies and universal
communications – worldwide networks and cities, ceaseless activities that
are mapping a new world of planetary problems. Alongside these universal
message-bearing systems new forms of unspeakable injustices, poverty, wars
and inequality have arisen. Serres asks:
Are these the signs of a new legend of angels, these interchanges and
annunciations, networks and visitations, demons fallen from grace,
powers and dominions – are they all part of the search for mercy and
redemption?11
Nothing stayed with me in the long run, especially if I only read it.
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nothing affected me existentially,
whereas anything I could see and shape on my own
became a lasting form of ‘mental possession’
and would actually ‘concern’ me.
So I always figured that ‘learning’ was much more successful,
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Make my own mistakes, shape my own insight and recognition.
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