With the emergence of silent film, early film theorists are paradoxically concerned with the problem of language: is film a-linguistic, pre-linguistic, or is it another language that blooms as a flower in the land of technology (Benjamin)? Where does Godard locate the animal, his dog that turns 'narrator' of a goodbye to language? Anthropologically marking a difference between talking and non-talking beings lies at the core of Edgar Morin's film theory, as Gertrud Koch (Freie Universität Berlin) will show in her lecture "Sprache und Sprachen – zu den babylonischen Verwirrungen im Sprachkonzept der Filmtheorie" while she also ventures into other positions towards the ontological difference of film and other media.