Between art practices and film spaces this screening night shows a selection of shorts that trace research efforts based on collecting and using footage from defining public moments. A glitchy drive through a tunnel, abstract formations on white paper, a fragmented memory, distorted living rooms, and a light torch under a blazing sun. These are all images that propose forms of documentation wandering beyond the frame. This five-film program invites viewers to grasp what exists beyond the screen through the formative usage of light. The films offer themselves as containers to hold a flow that uses concealment as a methodology for authorship. Elimination operates as a structural device activating concealment as a political act (where obstructed images become a site of assembly). In a spectrum of information and abstraction, films use a current moment to project us outside it, to see it differently, or to let it breathe.
Foyer (2016), Ismail Bahri
Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright (2010), Akram Zaatari
Night Visitor: The Night of Counting the Years (2011), Maha Maamoun
It Was Related to Me (2011), Mohammad Shawky Hassan
My Father Looks for Honest City (2010), Basim Magdy
Site relations film programme explores the question of time in relation to efforts to revisit, or recall moments that fall between the cracks of institutionalized categories. Sites that often resemble a mirage or a fertile ground for impositions elude a sense of access, based on the simple premise of shared memory. How far can these common grounds create relatability? We trace the elements that journey these films from original to forged sites, with a long interest in the potential connection visual material carries. Within the disconnect of what seem to be shared moments, film space traces encounters between subjects and authors of a time.
https://www.transartists.org/en/air/contemporary-image-collective