Afterimage, Afterlife:
Mexican Experimental Cinema and the Form of Absence
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Barking Community Cinema presents Afterimage, Afterlife; a selection of Mexican experimental short films that reflect on the form of absence in the face of violent histories. Moving between fragments and spectres, the works in this programme explore our camera-mediated understanding of turbulent times, turning to images as sites of both testimony and artifice. Reassembled archives, scratched surfaces and unsettling collisions summon lingering ghosts, whose traces resist systemic erasure and undermine official narratives. Gestures commemorating loss become acts of protest, inviting a tactile encounter with histories whose meanings have been obscured by conflict.
Programmed by London-based Mexican writer and researcher Lola Lemke.
Featured filmmakers and artists: Mauricio Sánchez Arias, Annalisa D. Quagliata, Elena Pardo, Ezequiel Reyes, Bruno Varela, Unidad de Montaje Dialéctico, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos.
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Image credit: Mauricio Sánchez Arias Las imágenes cristal de nuestra ciudad / The Crystal Images of Our City (2023).