e-flux Video & Film is excited to feature One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean (2021, 11 Minutes) by Yuyan Wang as the July 2022 edition of our monthly online series Staff Picks.
https://www.e-flux.com/video/477528/one-thousand-and-one-attempts-to-be-an-ocean/
July 1–31, 2022
In One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean, Yuyan Wang creates a visual ocean brimming with deep emotions and a feeling of uncanniness. Wang's vibrant and colorful video juxtaposes the monotony and superficiality of current internet iconography with the unexpected thrill of rediscovering the (un)known. It reflects on the experience of not being able to see the world with depth perception. Overall, these images may be seen as a mirror of the society of spectacle, as well as an ecological and social critique of the inexorable entropy of our information societies— groundless waves we are all together drowning in. What one hears is the question.
e-flux Video & Film is very pleased to present Akosua Adoma Owusu’s Reluctantly Queer (2016) and Pelourinho: They Don't Really Care About Us (2019) as the June 2022 edition of our monthly series Staff Picks.
https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/465166/staff-picks-akosua-adoma-owusu/
June 1–30, 2022
#efluxVideoFilm #StaffPicks #AkosuaAdomaOwusu
Revisiting W.E.B. Du Bois's thoughts on “double consciousness,” Akosua Adoma Owusu's films aspire to create a third cinematic space, or what she calls a “triple consciousness.” Ranging from cinematic essays to experimental narratives, her moving-image works focus on the interaction between politics of sexuality, pop culture, folklore, and Black American and African identities.
All of us at e-flux are delighted to share our Venice map with you, just in time for the opening of the 59th Venice Biennale.
As you navigate this year’s Biennale—whether on the ground or from afar—the e-flux map will be your guide to selected pavilions, affiliated Collateral Events, as well as other art exhibitions happening in Venice. Along with on-ground orientation, our map gives you instant access to relevant e-flux announcements: press releases, event information, latest updates from the pavilions, and more.
You can open the map now via our website and the e-flux phone app.
View the map: e-flux.com/maps/452299/venice-2022/
Download the e-flux app: e-flux.com/app
e - flux Video & Film | Artist Cinemas | The Films of Amit Dutta | Mother, Who Will Weave Now?, 2022
e-flux Video & Film presents Mother, Who Will Weave Now?, the sixth and final installment of The Films of Amit Dutta, a selection of films programmed by Iman Issa as the tenth cycle of Artist Cinemas.
April 11–17, 2022
Mother, Who Will Weave Now? attempts to sample and mirror the grand tapestry of Indian textile tradition and history by interweaving snippets of Indian cloth on an editing table, using the poetic meters of classical Indian literature sewn together with the words and motifs of the weaver-saint Kabir.
#AmitDutta #ImanIssa #efluxVideoFilm #ArtistCinemas
The Films of Amit Dutta spans six weekly episodes from March 7 through April 18, 2022, featuring six films by Amit Dutta accompanied by a conversation in six parts between the filmmaker and Iman Issa. A new film and part of the conversation are released every Monday. Each film streams for the duration of one week.
The program wraps on Monday, April 18, with a repeat of all six films streaming through Tuesday noon EST.
Watch here: e-flux.com/video/461208/mother-who-will-weave-now
e - flux Video & Film | Artist Cinemas | The Films of Amit Dutta | The Museum of Imagination: A Portrait in Absentia, 2012
e-flux Video & Film is pleased to present The Museum of Imagination: A Portrait in Absentia, the fifth installment of The Films of Amit Dutta, a selection of films programmed by Iman Issa as the tenth cycle of Artist Cinemas.
April 4–10, 2022
The Museum of Imagination: A Portrait in Absentia came into being as a result of several conversations the filmmaker recorded with Prof. B.N. Goswamy, an important art historian of India, covering his entire body of work. Interspersed with his speech were also some silences. This film draws upon some of those moments of silence and weaves them into a web of ideas and images that fill the art historian’s mindscape.
#AmitDutta #ImanIssa #efluxVideoFilm #ArtistCinemas
The Films of Amit Dutta spans six weekly episodes from March 7 through April 18, 2022, featuring six films by Amit Dutta accompanied by a conversation in six parts between the filmmaker and Iman Issa. A new film and part of the conversation are released every Monday. Each film streams for the duration of one week.
Watch here: e-flux.com/video/458912/the-museum-of-imagination-a-portrait-in-absentia/
e - flux Video & Film | Artist Cinemas | The Films of Amit Dutta | The Unknown Craftsman, 2017
e-flux Video & Film is pleased to present The Unknown Craftsman, the fourth installment of The Films of Amit Dutta, a selection of films programmed by Iman Issa as the tenth cycle of Artist Cinemas.
March 28–April 3, 2022
Presented here alongside a conversation between Amit Dutta and Iman Issa
#AmitDutta #ImanIssa #efluxVideoFilm #ArtistCinemas
The Films of Amit Dutta spans six weekly episodes from March 7 through April 18, 2022, featuring six films by Amit Dutta accompanied by a conversation in six parts between the filmmaker and Iman Issa. A new film and part of the conversation are released every Monday. Each film streams for the duration of one week.
Watch here: e-flux.com/video/457752/the-unknown-craftsman/
e - flux Video & Film | Artist Cinemas | The Films of Amit Dutta | Chitrashala, 2015
e-flux Video & Film is pleased to present Chitrashala, the third installment of The Films of Amit Dutta, a selection of films programmed by Iman Issa as the tenth cycle of Artist Cinemas.
March 21–27, 2022
In Chitrashala, when a gallery of paintings becomes emptied of its spectators, the curtains rise within the paintings.
#AmitDutta #ImanIssa #efluxVideoFilm #ArtistCinemas
The Films of Amit Dutta spans six weekly episodes from March 7 through April 18, 2022, featuring six films by Amit Dutta accompanied by a conversation in six parts between the filmmaker and Iman Issa. A new film and part of the conversation are released every Monday. Each film streams for the duration of one week.
Watch here: e-flux.com/video/456191/chitrashala/
e - flux Video & Film | Artist Cinemas | The Films of Amit Dutta | Nainsukh, 2010
e-flux Video & Film is pleased to present Nainsukh, the second installment of The Films of Amit Dutta, a selection of films programmed by Iman Issa as the tenth cycle of Artist Cinemas.
March 14–20, 2022
Nainsukh delves into the mid-eighteenth century, where an extraordinary master painter from the Himalayan foothills of Guler sets out on a journey to meet his patron in the small hill-state of Jasrota. He finds his match in the eccentric employ of Balwant Singh, the only remaining testimony of which are the painter’s intimately observant portraits of his employer.
#AmitDutta #ImanIssa #efluxVideoFilm #ArtistCinemas
The Films of Amit Dutta spans six weekly episodes from March 7 through April 18, 2022, featuring six films by Amit Dutta accompanied by a conversation in six parts between the filmmaker and Iman Issa. A new film and part of the conversation are released every Monday. Each film streams for the duration of one week.
Clip from Amit Dutta, Nainsukh, 2010
Watch here: e-flux.com/video/455227/nainsukh
e-flux Screening Room | Elizabeth A. Povinelli, The Inheritance, 2021
Head over to e-flux Screening Room in Brooklyn on Wednesday, February 23 at 7pm for a screening and conversation with anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli, presenting her new animated video essay The Inheritance (80 minutes, 2021).
Get your tickets here: eventbrite.com/e/elizabeth-a-povinelli-the-inheritance-tickets-266212598047
Romanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale presents Adina Pintilie: You Are Another Me—A Cathedral of the Body.
April 23–November 27, 2022
#RomanianPavilion #VeniceBiennale #AdinaPintilie You Are Another Me - A Cathedral of the Body
Video: Adina Pintilie, You Are Another Me—A Cathedral of the Body (excerpt). Courtesy of the artist and Manekino Cultural Association. Director of photography: George Chiper—Lillemark.
More info: https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/446001/adina-pintilieyou-are-another-me-a-cathedral-of-the-body/
e-flux Video & Film | Artist Cinemas | From the East | Keti Chukhrov, Communion, 2016
e-flux Video & Film presents Keti Chukhrov’s Communion (2016) as part of From the East: Some Strange, Scary, and Funny Messages, an online program of films and accompanying texts convened by Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat).
February 7–13, 2022
#efluxVideoFilm #ArtistCinemas #KetiChukhrov #JodiDean #KevinPlatt #DmitryVilensky #ChtoDelat
Based on an original play by Keti Chukhrov, Communion presents the dialectic of unity and belief. Spiritual unity conceals and maintains material division, hierarchies of privilege and power, and the hypocritical self-righteousness of the materially blessed. Assisted by religious icons, prayer can deliver capitalist ones—wealth, beauty, and luxury. Belief doesn’t heal the rift in the world; it expresses it. Nita’s friend Ira observes, “Well, girls, I understand what it means to believe—it’s like when everything is sh*t, and you force yourself to like it.” Belief enchains as much as it liberates, a truth not just for duped plebians but for the spiritual elite whose faith in their natural superiority ties them to a world they’ve already lost.
The film is introduced above by Jodi Dean and presented with an excerpt from the essay “Keti Chukhrov’s Theatre of Communion” by Kevin Platt.
From the East runs in six episodes released every Monday from January 10 through February 20, 2022, streaming a new film each week accompanied by a responding text.
Watch here: e-flux.com/video/447708/communion/
e-flux Video & Film | Artist Cinemas | From the East | Želimir Žilnik, The Old School of Capitalism, 2009
e-flux Video & Film presents Želimir Žilnik’s The Old School of Capitalism (2009) as part of From the East: Some Strange, Scary, and Funny Messages, an online program of films and accompanying texts convened by Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat).
January 31–February 6, 2022
#efluxVideoFilm #ArtistCinemas #ŽelimirŽilnik #DmitryVilensky #ChtoDelat
The Old School of Capitalism is rooted in the first wave of worker revolts to hit Serbia since the advent of capitalism. Desperate workers bulldoze through factory gates and are devastated to discover that the site has been looted by the bosses. Eccentrically escalating confrontations—including a melee with workers wearing American football pads and helmets, with the boss and his security force in bulletproof vests—prove fruitless. Committed young anarchists offer solidarity, take the bosses hostage. A Russian tycoon, a Wall Street trader, and US Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Belgrade unexpectedly complicate events, which culminate in a shocking end. As it progresses, the film produces an increasingly complex and yet unfailingly lively account of present-day—in fact, up-to-the-minute—struggles under the misery-inducing effects of both local and global capitalism. The film was developed out of research into the factories of Sinvoz, BEK, and Jugoremedija in the city of Zrenjanin. These factories were devastated in the process of “reprivatization,” causing production to be stopped and leaving thousands of workers unemployed. Žilnik followed the workers’ protests and their occupation of the factories. The captured footage resulted in a documentary, which was given to the workers to spread their message. The production company Playground Produkcija also joined the effort, and later produced a series of TV documentaries called What Remains After Bankruptcy. The series was screened on local TV and very much contributed to the visibility of and media attention to these struggles. After the documentary se
e-flux Video & Film | Artist Cinemas | From the East | Roee Rosen, The Buried Alive Videos 2004-2010 , 2013
e-flux Video & Film presents Roee Rosen’s The Buried Alive Videos 2004-2010 (2013) as part of From the East: Some Strange, Scary, and Funny Messages, an online program of films and accompanying texts convened by Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat).
January 17–23, 2022
#efluxVideoFilm #ArtistCinemas #RoeeRosen #DmitryVilensky #ChtoDelat
The Buried Alive Videos compiles six works supposedly produced by The Buried Alive Group between 2004-2010, and brackets them with sections from The Buried Alive Manifesto (2004), which sets the creative and ideological guidelines of the group.
The film is presented alongside a text by Joshua Simon.
From the East runs in six episodes released every Monday from January 10 through February 20, 2022, streaming a new film each week accompanied by a commissioned response published in text form.
Watch here: e-flux.com/video/441729/the-buried-alive-videos-nbsp-2004-2010/
Clip from Roee Rosen, The Buried Alive Videos 2004-2010, 2013.
e-flux Video & Film | Revolution and Civil War (Here) - Memories for Forgetfulness Elsewhere | Khadijeh Habashneh, Children Without Childhood, 1972
e-flux Video & Film is very pleased to present Revolution and Civil War (Here), the second group screening of the online film program Memories for Forgetfulness Elsewhere, curated by Irmgard Emmelhainz.
Online: December 8–21
The films in this second chapter give us glimpses of how Arab-world countries after 1967 participated in struggles for a better future and for a less unequal international world system, be it in the form of Pan-Arab nationalism, socialist revolutions, or anti-occupation struggles. These struggles were opposed to and attacked by Western powers, and eventually thwarted by the defeat of Palestinians in Jordan, civil war in Lebanon, among other ramifications. The struggles differed from country to country, but here, unlike elsewhere in the world, women fought on several fronts: in the bedroom, in the office, under civil war, against the Israeli occupation of Palestine, through filmmaking.
With films by Selma Baccar, Khadijeh Habashneh, and Jocelyne Saab, streaming December 8–21, 2021 on e-flux Video & FIlm.
#efluxVideoFilm #IrmgardEmmelhainz #SelmaBaccar #KhadijehHabashneh #JocelyneSaab
Watch here: www.e-flux.com/announcements/436752/memories-for-forgetfulness-elsewhere-ii-revolution-and-civil-war-here/
e-flux Video & Film | Artist Cinemas | Unreformable | Khaled Jarrar, Infiltrators, 2012
For the final week of Unreformable, an online program of films and texts put together by Adelita Husni Bey, e-flux Video & Film will be screening Khaled Jarrar’s 2012 film Infiltrators until November 28, 2021.
#efluxVideoFilm #ArtistCinemas #AdelitaHusniBey #KhaledJarrar
Picturing the uncertain and tense search for a route across, under, or over the border wall, Palestinians seek to penetrate the highly militarized West Bank. Alternating between cigarette breaks, detours, waiting, and moving the film depicts the cunning, unnerving, and constant struggle to defy captivity and occupation.
The film is presented alongside a text response by Ciarán Finlayson.
Unreformable runs in six weekly episodes from October 18 through November 28, 2021, streaming a new film each week accompanied by a commissioned interview or response published in text form.
Credit: Clip from Khaled Jarrar, Infiltrators, 2012
Watch here: www.e-flux.com/video/433779/infiltrators/
e-flux Video & Film | Festival Forum | Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul - EXiS | Roh Youngmee, 1021, 2021
Today is the last day to watch the seven short films from the Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul – EXiS, which featured on e-flux Video & Film as part of the ongoing series Festival Forum.
Screening today until 11:59pm EST
#efluxVideoFilm #EXiSFestival #FestivalForum
With films by Kim Boyong, Yun Choi, Ellie Kyungran Heo, Jeon Junehyuck, Eun Sol Kim, Roh Youngmee, and Ji Hye Yeom, streaming on e-flux Video & Film for two weeks from Thursday, October 28 through Thursday, November 11, 2021.
The program was accompanied by a recorded conversation between EXiS 2021 programmer Inhan Cho and e-flux’s Lukas Brasiskis.
#KimBoyong #YunChoi #EllieKyungranHeo #JeonJunehyuck #EunSolKim #RohYoungmee #JiHyeYeom #InhanCho #LukasBrasiskis
서울국제실험영화페스티벌
Credit: Clip from Roh Youngmee, 1021, 2021
Watch here: www.e-flux.com/video/programs/428229/exis-2021-experimental-film-and-video-festival-in-seoul/
e-flux Video & Film | Artist Cinemas | Unreformable | Andreas Hernandez, Soil, Struggle and Justice: Agroecology in the Brazilian Landless Movement, 2014
e-flux Video & Film presents Andreas Hernandez’s 2014 film Soil, Struggle and Justice: Agroecology in the Brazilian Landless Movement as part of Unreformable, an online program of films and texts put together by Adelita Husni Bey.
November 8–14, 2021
#efluxVideoFilm #ArtistCinemas #AdelitaHusniBey #AndreasHernandez
This documentary chronicles the history of the MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, known in English as the Landless Workers Movement) in Brazil, offering a detailed account of their activities beginning with land occupation, land restoration, and a complex social system that includes continuous political formaçao as its core principle.
The film is presented alongside an interview with the filmmaker Andreas Hernandez by Adelita Husni Bey.
Unreformable runs in six weekly episodes from October 18 through November 28, 2021, streaming a new film each week accompanied by a commissioned interview or response published in text form.
Credit: Clip from Andreas Hernandez, Soil, Struggle and Justice: Agroecology in the Brazilian Landless Movement, 2014
Watch here: www.e-flux.com/video/429869/soil-struggle-and-justice-agroecology-in-the-brazilian-landless-movement/
e-flux Video & Film | Artist Cinemas | Unreformable | Sarah Minter, Nadie es inocente (No One is Innocent) [1987]
The next film from Unreformable, an online program of films and texts put together by Adelita Husni Bey, is Sarah Minter’s Nadie es inocente (No One is Innocent) [1987]. Available on e-flux Video & Film until November 7, 2021.
#efluxVideoFilm #ArtistCinemas #AdelitaHusniBey #SarahMinter #OliviaCrough
An arresting portrait of the Mierdas Punks, a group of youths living in the outskirts of Mexico City who are devoted to the fringes and the “unacceptable.” Minter’s approach, intuitive and improvised, is reflected in the film which was written in collaboration with the group, as they venture around Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, otherwise known as “Neza York.”
The film is presented alongside a text response by Olivia Crough.
Unreformable runs in six weekly episodes from October 18 through November 28, 2021, streaming a new film each week accompanied by a commissioned interview or response published in text form.
Credit: Clip from Sarah Minter, Nadie es inocente (No One is Innocent), 1987.
Watch here: e-flux.com/video/429306/nadie-es-inocente-nbsp-no-one-is-innocent/
e-flux Video & Film | Artist Cinemas | Unreformable | Adriana Monti, Scuola senza fine (School Without End), [1983].
For the second week of Unreformable, an online program of films and texts put together by Adelita Husni, e-flux Video & Film will be screening Adriana Monti’s Scuola senza fine (School Without End), [1983] until October 31, 2021.
#efluxVideoFilm #ArtistCinemas #AdelitaHusniBey #AdrianaMonti
A group of women following the worker-union-sponsored “150 hours” course to complete their secondary school education are mentored by feminist, activist, and writer Lea Melandri. Adriana Monti follows the women as they reconsider their role as housewives and the effects of this type of political education on their self-narration.
The film is presented alongside a conversation with Lea Melandri conducted by Christina Chalmers.
Unreformable runs in six weekly episodes from October 18 through November 28, 2021, streaming a new film each week accompanied by a commissioned interview or response published in text form.
Watch here: www.e-flux.com/video/427756/scuola-senza-fine-nbsp-school-without-end/
e-flux Video & Film Artist Cinemas program featured in Millennium Film Journal Film
Millennium Film Journal recently released video essays to accompany Grahame Weinbren’s reviews of e-flux Video & Film's Artist Cinemas program. The essays are available to watch on the Millennium Film Journal website.
In the essays, Weinbren discusses Andriy Rachinskiy and Daniil Revkovskiy’s Labor Safety (2018) which was part of the program War and Cinema organized by Oleksiy Radynski. He also reviews Nashashibi/Skaer’s Lamb (2015), part of the program War and Cinema organized by Oleksiy Radynski.
Artist Cinemas is a new e-flux platform focusing on exploring the moving image as understood by people who make film. Look out for upcoming series on the e-flux & Video website.
Credit: Andriy Rachinskiy and Daniil Revkovskiy, Labor Safety in the Region of Dnipropetrovsk (clip), 2018
Program available here: https://www.e-flux.com/video/series/330325/artist-cinemas/
e-flux Video & Film | Staff Picks | Nico Dockx, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Anton Vidokle, New York Conversations, 2010
e-flux Video & Film is very pleased to present New York Conversations for the October 2021 edition of our monthly series Staff picks.
#efluxVideoFilm #RirkritTiravanija #NicoDockx #AntonVidokle
Nico Dockx, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Anton Vidokle, New York Conversations, 2010
64 minutes
With: Francisca Benitez, Nico Dockx, Daniel Faust, Media Farzin, Liam Gillick, Egon Hanfstingl, Jörg Heiser, Steven Kaplan, Shama Khanna, Anders Kreuger, Miwon Kwon, Valerie Mannaerts, Sis Matthé, Molly Nesbit, Hadley Nunes, Saul Ostrow, Marti Peran, Simon Rees, Els Roelandt, Dieter Roelstraete, Martha Rosler, Joe Scanlan, Maxwel Stephen, Monika Szewczyk, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Jan Verwoert, Anton Vidokle, Lawrence Weiner, Andrea Wiarda, Louwrien Wijers, and others
Edited by Ken Kobland
For most of its existence, e-flux has been based on the Lower East Side—an immigrant neighborhood that has been populated by successive waves of migration from Eastern Europe, Latin America, and China during the past century or more. e-flux has drawn inspiration for many of its projects from the distinctly mercantile character of this part of New York, once home to many progressive presses and theaters. This coming October, e-flux will be moving to Brooklyn, drawing to a close nearly two decades of our presence and work in Manhattan.
To reflect on this change, we leave you with an unusual film made at a former e-flux storefront on Essex Street. Titled New York Conversations, this film was shot in the summer of 2008. It documents three days of public conversations between artists, critics, curators, and a free-floating public. For the occasion, our storefront at the time was converted into an improvised kitchen and canteen, open to anyone who wanted to join.
The talks and food were organized by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Nico Dockx, and Anton Vidokle in response to an invitation by Belgian art journal A Prior to be the subject of one of their issues. Instead of commissioning essays or producing artwork to b
e-flux Video & Film | Staff picks | Kamal Aljafari, Port of Memory, 2010.
Today is the last day to watch e-flux Video & Film’s September staff pick: Kamal Aljafari’s feature-length film Port of Memory (2010).
Screening until 11:59pm EST
#efluxVideoFilm #KamalAljafari
Kamal Aljafari, Port of Memory, 2010
63 minutes
Once a thriving Palestinian port city, Jaffa has now become an extension of Tel Aviv. It often served as the backdrop for action films set in the Middle East, featuring the likes of Chuck Norris. Aljafari offers a subtle portrait and memoir of a disappearing city that has been changed forever by incessant construction, gentrification, and dispossession of its inhabitants. It quietly traces the streets of Jaffa and follows the rhythms of life of the city and its people, centered around mundane rituals and occurrences that instil a sense of normalcy. We find a cat napping lazily on the television set, an elderly parent being taken care of, a family watching TV, and hands being washed repetitively. Against this seemingly still décor, the filmmaker’s family are at risk of eviction if they cannot prove their ownership of their house.
Kamal Aljafari works with moving and still images, interweaving fiction, non-fiction, and contemporary art.
Watch here: https://www.e-flux.com/video/415040/port-of-memory/
e-flux Video & Film | Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, Spaces of Exception, 2018.
e-flux Video & Film presents the online premiere of Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny’s film Spaces of Exception (2018).
September 27–October 11, 2021
#efluxVideoFilm #MattPeterson #MalekRasamny #KareemEstefan
Spaces of Exception investigates and juxtaposes the struggles, communities, and spaces of the American Indian reservation and the Palestinian refugee camp. The film was shot from 2014 to 2017 in Arizona, New Mexico, New York, and South Dakota, as well as in Lebanon and the West Bank. Directed by Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, it is an attempt to understand the significance of the land—its memory and divisions—and the conditions for life, community, and sovereignty.
Spaces of Exception comes out of the long-term multimedia project The Native and the Refugee, which has been presented in Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, England, France, Guatemala, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Portugal, Syria, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, within the refugee camps and reservations were the film was shot, and at venues including cinemas, museums, and universities.
The film is presented alongside a written Q&A with the filmmakers conducted by writer and critic Kareem Estefan.
Watch here: https://www.e-flux.com/video/421474/spaces-of-exception/
e-flux Video & Film | True Fake: Artists' Films Troubling the Real featured on frieze
The latest issue of frieze features an article by Lukas Brasiskis on e-flux Video & Film’s online screening series True Fake: Artists' Films Troubling the Real, which ran from February 9 until April 20 this year.
#efluxVideoFilm #TrueFake #frieze
Responding to the current political, technological, and environmental conditions, this series of screenings highlighted twenty contemporary and historically important films and videos that examine unstable boundaries between fact and fiction, nature and artifice, objectivity and subjectivity, mediation and exposition. The title True Fake was chosen as a statement alluding to audiovisual images perceived as fabricated or non-indexical and yet that surpass a simple true/false, documentary/fiction division.
The program featured films and videos by Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, Peggy Ahwesh, Eric Baudelaire, Filipa César and Louis Henderson, Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew, Harun Farocki, Omer Fast, Johan Grimonprez, Louis Henderson, Chris Kennedy, Manu Luksch, Sara Magenheimer, Chris Marker, Jesse McLean, Alison Nguyen, Sondra Perry, Forensic Architecture and Praxis Films, Walid Raad, Hito Steyerl, and Peter Watkins.
Also included were live discussion with some of the participating artists and other guests, as well as a complementary e-flux journal reader, which is still available on e-flux.com.
Credit: Eric Baudelaire, The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years without Images, 2011.
Read the article here: https://www.frieze.com/article/lukas-brasiskis-troubled-real-2021
e-flux Video & Film | staff picks | Anocha Suwichakornpong
Last chance to view e-flux Anocha Suwichakornpong’s films as part of e-flux Video & Film’s staff picks program. Graceland (2006) and Nightfall (2016) will be streaming until Saturday, July 31, 2021.
#efluxVideoFilm #AnochaSuwichakornpong
Anocha Suwichakornpong, Graceland, 2006
17 minutes
One night in Bangkok, Jon meets a mysterious woman. Together, they embark on a journey to the foreign land — the human heart.
Anocha Suwichakornpong and Tulapop Saenjaroen, Nightfall, 2016
15 minutes
A day in the life of a nameless woman as she wanders around Singapore. Part documentary, part video essay, Nightfall is a fictionalized account of the time Anocha Suwichakornpong spent during a residency researching Thai politics in a foreign land.
Anocha Suwichakornpong is a filmmaker and producer. Her work is informed by the socio-political history of Thailand.
Watch here: e-flux.com/announcements/405012/e-flux-video-film-staff-picks/
e-flux Video & Film | Artist Cinemas | Planet C
Join us on e-flux Video & Film on Monday, July 26 for the repeat screenings and wrap of Planet C, a six-part program of films and essays put together by filmmaker and writer Charles Mudede as the seventh edition of the online series Artist Cinemas.
Planet C has featured films by Alex Rivera, Stephanie Syjuco, Adam Sekuler and Karn Junkinsmith, Charles Mudede and Roxanne Emadi, Saki Mafundikwa, and Zia Mohajerjasbi; and essays by Charles Mudede written in conversation with the filmmakers.
#RoxanneEmadi #KarnJunkinsmith #SakiMafundikwa #ZiaMohajerjasbi #CharlesMudede #AlexRivera #AdamSekuler #StephanieSyjuco
The films will stream through Monday, May July 26, 11:59pm EST.
Alex Rivera, Sleep Dealer, 2008
90 minutes
Accompanied by the essay “Imagining the Past and Remembering the Future in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer”
Stephanie Syjuco, Body Double (Platoon), 2006
120 minutes
Accompanied by the essay “The Cinema of the Block Universe in Stephanie Syjuco’s Body Double (Platoon)”
Adam Sekuler and Karn Junkinsmith, Interpretive Site: Hanford Reach, 2009
8 minutes
Accompanied by the essay “Disaster Eden Cinema: : Adam Sekuler and Karn Junkinsmith’s Interpretive Site: Hanford Reach”
Charles Mudede and Roxanne Emadi, Twilight of the Goodtimes, 2010
11 minutes
Accompanied by the essay “The Spirit of the Good Times”
Saki Mafundikwa, Shungu: The Resilience of a People, 2009
54 minutes
Accompanied by the essay “The Colliding Worlds of Shungu”
Zia Moharjerjashi, The Charcoal Sky: Chapter 5, 2017
9:36 minutes
Accompanied by the essay “Seattle’s Charcoal Sky”
Films and essays available at e-flux.com/video/programs/401644/planet-c/
e-flux Video & Film | Artist Cinemas | Planet C | Zia Moharjerjashi, The Charcoal Sky: Chapter 5, 2017.
Join us on e-flux Video & Film for an online screening of Zia Moharjerjashi's The Charcoal Sky: Chapter 5 (2017), streaming from Monday, July 12 through Sunday, July 18, 2021.
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The Charcoal Sky is all about the light of the Pacific Northwest. That is all you need to know. Zia Mohajerjasbi, who is now based in Los Angeles, is a cinematographer whose best work so far begins and ends with the sharply slanted light of Seattle.
It is presented alongside an essay by Charles Mudede written in conversation with the filmmaker.
Credit: Zia Moharjerjashi's The Charcoal Sky: Chapter 5, clip), 2017.
Read Charles Mudede’s essay watch The Charcoal Sky: Chapter 5 here: https://www.e-flux.com/video/409156/zia-moharjerjashi-the-charcoal-sky-chapter-5/
e-flux Video & Film | Artist Cinemas | Planet C | Saki Mafundikwa, Shungu: The Resilience of a People, 2009.
Join us on e-flux Video & Film for an online screening of Saki Mafundikwa's Shungu: The Resilience of a People (2009), streaming from Monday, July 12 through Sunday, July 18, 2021.
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In 2000, the Zimbabwean economy collapsed as a consequence of two negative forces, one external and the other internal. The external: neoliberal globalization; the internal, party corruption. Shungu: The Resilience of a People starkly surveys the ruins of this twin catastrophe.
It is presented alongside an essay by Charles Mudede written in conversation with the filmmaker.
Read Charles Mudede’s essay and watch Saki Mafundikwa's film Shungu: The Resilience of a People here: https://www.e-flux.com/video/407003/saki-mafundikwa-shungu-the-resilience-of-a-people/
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