CN: Thematization of violence; thematization of suicide
The world seems to be flooded by images and yet so many are missing. They were forgotten, forbidden, burned and banned. We cannot imagine, rediscover or remember them. MISSING IMAGES summons a few of them. Between the fragments, an idea timidly emerges: while flipping the page and changing the side of the vinyl record, with each click of the slide projector and in the echo of the music box. (Theresa George)
An assemblage of still images and video work, both real and imagined, BREAK NO. 1 & BREAK NO. 2 explores the fragility of human memory as it relates to the moving image and the unconscious.
… >>>By merging a slide show of Dia Positive photographs shot on a trip to the city of Abadan in 2005 with video excerpts, sonic bits, and a reading, this lecture performance raises questions about the atrocious fire attack on Cinema Rex in Iran 1978. What elements are required for the construction of a collective memory of this violent event?
Performer: Azin Feizabadi
… >>>A well-known new music composer sends encouraging words to radical young filmmakers and writes a piece based on the zodiac for wind-up music box. Filmed on 16mm with direct sound, TWINS draws on rituals of memorial and repetition to reflect on the degradation of institutions through political influence.
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