Passage works

<i>Passage Works<b> </b></i><b></b>is the first book-length English language critical analysis of the transdisciplinary work of the Austrian film-maker writer and artist Ruth Beckermann (b. 1952 Vienna). Beckermann's works interrogate identity and geography as formations of the intersections between the past and the contemporary. Taking as her central topics Austria and its history and politics her own identity as a Jewish woman and the contemporary global geopolitics of migration and displacement Beckermann develops wider meditations in film art and writing on the persistence of European memory and the meanings of Europe itself; on borders migrations and identities; on memories traumas and traditions; on the image as marker of presence and absence repository of the traces of historical violence; and on the<i> passage</i> as metaphor for a range of physical psychological and ideological movements defining the complexities of contemporary cosmopolitan identities.