Colonial history lies not in the past. It shapes how we remember and what we know in the present. The film series, Decolonial Visions in Diaspora Cinema, proposes alternatives to colonial knowledge formations through the work of Asian diasporic filmmakers. Together, the select screenings offer the moving image as a site of decolonial cultural and memory practice.

Wednesday, 27.11.2024 20:00 – Double screening: The Lake and the Lake & An Asian Ghost Story, followed by a talk with directors Sindhu Thirumalaisamy and Bo Wang (online).

Trust No Thought Of Mine is the latest modular video work by Zeljko Vukicevic, also known as Zhel. This omnibus pays homage to Isidore Isou’s Venom and Eternity (1951), adopting Isou’s protest style—particularly through intertitles that act as provocative slogans on creativity, challenging and disrupting the viewer’s expectations.

The four decades of work that comprise avant-gardist Fred Worden’s cinematic explorations are a constantly evolving set of collisions (and collusions) involving images and abstractions that range from satirical jabs at the self-seriousness of experimental film culture, sincere tributes and contemplations of the medium, or pure jolts of pulsating visual energy—but most often, all of the above. Throughout his artistic life and career as a professor, Worden has found himself at the epicenter of creative communities on the west coast (where he graduated from CalArts and made early collaborations with Chris Langdon), the east coast (evidenced in his longtime friendships with the likes of Ken Jacobs and Ernie Gehr), and in between (as a member of the Criss-Cross artists group from Boulder).