This compact screening programme, clocking just over 38 minutes, brings together four short films around the question of how one witnesses and documents both historical events and contemporary dissent. How do these four audiovisual artists reconstruct their realities amid blurred memories, mechanisms of invisibility and internalised censorship? Are the facts after the facts still the facts?
Some of the artists will be present to share their thoughts and join the conversation.
The Lost Sail by Justine Cappelle
Belgium, 2022, 8 min
English with English subtitles
Online, 25 May 2022. Belgian artist Justine Cappelle and Chinese film director Zao Wang discuss the extreme form of censorship he experienced while making a film. He saw his feature The Lost Sail transform into The Precipice Game and talks about how this transformation took place.
Sensitive Content by Narges Kalhor
Iran, Germany, 2023, 8 min
Farsi with French, English subtitles
Iran, 16 September 2022. Mahsa Amini dies after being beaten by the morality police. Demonstrations follow, bringing together thousands of women. The protesters use their cell phone cameras to capture the urgent protests and their brutal reprisals. Narges Kahlor tracks their images on social media.
Sécurise tes images : détruis-les by Lory Glenn
France, 2024, 11 min
No dialogue
France, 25 March 2023. The police repression at the protest over a new water reservoir in Sainte-Soline is so violent that it blurs the recollection of the actual events. Fragmented images, aided by an algorithm, attempt to restore lost memories.
Doubts by Fırat Yücel
Turkey, Netherlands, 2024, 12 min
Turkish with English subtitles
Turkey, 8 March 2020. A multi-voiced desktop essay attempts to find the blind spots of the open-access webcam recordings of Taksim Square during the Feminist Night March - the last demonstration in Istanbul before the pandemic.
This screening is part of the monthly 20/20 Vision screening series at argos.
Pricing (includes a bowl of soup):
€5 - €10 - €15 depending on your financial capacity.