60 and More Films That Arsenal Audiences Should Have Seen (4)
Since September, the comprehensive, multi-perspective film history program curated by Gaby Babić, Vaginal Davis, Madhushree Dutta, Kimberly Esposito, Victoria Leshchenko, Lisabona Rahman, Can Sungu, Clarissa Thieme and representatives of three institutions (Tamer El-Said/Cimatheque – Alternative Film Centre (Egypt), Filipa César/Mediateca Onshore (Guinea-Bissau) and Didi Cheeka/Lagos Film Society (Nigeria)) has formed an integral part of the Arsenal program. As part of the anniversary activities being put on by Arsenal, which was founded 60 years ago, the curators spent months discussing, watching and writing about films. An impressively rich and multi-faceted selection was put together, a corpus of over 80 titles that shines a light on the many darker corners of film historiography, combines many different perspectives and makes cinematographies visible that deserve to be at the center of film historical attention. This also includes the availability of prints, which in individual cases were unable to be found despite intensive research. Filling these gaps will be the task of the next months in order to complete the program piece by piece. It’s not just these events that will allow the “60 and More Films” project to continue to resonate across the Arsenal program of the next months, whether in terms of the selection or laying the curatorial foundation stone for rethinking and rewriting film history. 60 and More Films That Arsenal Audiences Should Have Seen – to be continued.
This also applies to the presentation of the films nominated by Arsenal audiences as must-sees as part of an open call. The first titles of this equally comprehensive selection will be screening in the second half of December.
The keyword structure already familiar from the last months is being used once again as a means of orientation: Decentering / City, Vulnerability and Resistance, Resistance – Subverting – Surviving, (R)age, (Camera)Work, Impaired Sight, Decolonisation – Debt – Migration.
As part of ARSENAL 60 ff. funded by the Federal Capital Cultural Fund.
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