Lecture-performance, film screening, 115min, video projection, sound, text, 2014
On the occasion of Delfina Foundation "Public Domain" program and ICA London Artists' Film Club series
A performance-lecture cum film screening that incorporates visual and textual material from the research archive "A Collective Memory" (2009-ongoing). The events starting point is a sixty second moving image projection by the Lumière brothers, featuring workers exiting the Lumière factory, witnessed by the French bourgeois in 1895. Examining two other incidents that occurred over a century later, the three events become linked over time.
Short films and video works accompanying the lecture:
"I'm the Son of the Nile" by Heba Amin
.mov and .avi files from Mosireen Archive
"Excursions in the Dark" by Kaya Behkalam
"Paradoxes of Time: Studies in Memory #1" by Bani Khoshnoudi
"Unnamed Sound Sculpture" by Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer
"2026" by Maha Mamoun
