ABSTRACT
The significant event one can encounter an inscription that leads to a shift in our mythical and ideological organization of the world and to a persistence in acting and searching. Significant events thus bind disarticulation and articulation together, which also means that they cannot be reclaimed for only some groups of historical agents and not for others, as often has been the case. Significant events that occur inside the cinema or outside in the city streets leave traces; by following such traces, we can re-construct history. In the late 1950s and early 1960s we meet, teenagers dressed in spectacular styles gathering at places like the Stadtpark or strolling through Mollardgasse. According to Georg Simmel analysis, the modern metropolis has triggered an "intensified nervous life" with a quick and incessant change of inner and outer imprints as well as a compression of varying images. In this "intensified, nervous life" movie images and lived life very often quote each other.
