This film program brings together two very prominent people within the American and Canadian alternative art and film communities. Eminent film critic, underground actress and performance artist Amy Taubin made a few forays into the world of filmmaking, and her most well known work is In the Bag, from 1981. In the words of film scholar and theorist Noël Carroll: «Roughly twenty minutes long, the film records a search through a tattered, patchwork-quilt shoulder bag for something – we know not what.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos is a collective of filmmakers and activists mainly based in and around Mexico City. Their work is characterized by both radical form work and a direct response to the political turbulence, the violence and the corruption that is a highly tangible reality in Mexican society. Mass disappearances, political and military corruption and feminine cleansing - femicide - are some subjects that the collective stays with.

Walden in collaboration with the Finnish Institute in Sweden welcomes Finnish filmmaker Sami van Ingen. Van Ingen mostly works with film, video and installations. Whether it is in the form of large, spatial arrangements for two modified – or pimped as he himself expressed it – 35mm-projectors or films projected in 35mm CinemaScope, or smaller formats like Super-8, 8mm or 16 mm, his activities is characterized by an intense, exploratory and yet playful work with the hands.

Figuration of showing – Figures of absence
Dore O.'s films in-between opaqueness and translucency, hypnosis and clarity

A program selected and introduced by Masha Matzke, film archivist and researcher based in Berlin. Matzke is currently involved in the restoration of the work of Dore O. at the Deutsche Kinemathek.