“We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.” These words of Frantz Fanon conclude Harris’ sobering and chilling mash-up of frantic Chicago Police audio messages with frenetically animated Google Maps imagery surveying the city. The sound refers to the protests during 2020 that followed the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery; the image does not directly depict these events, instead evoking urban space as an ultra-controlled prison.
– Adrian Martin
Also in this combined programme
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Introduction to Humanities
A film teacher begins her class with a fun camera exercise involving all the students. -
The Punched Tape of Life
Is everything recorded on film destined to become digital data, or does life still resist? -
No Archive Can Restore You
An exploration into the ‘sonic shadows’ that colonial moving images continue to generate. -
Frozen War (Hotel Diaries 1)
Sardonic reflections on the state of the world occasioned by a frozen news broadcast. -
Watching Words Becoming a Film (TXT.FLM #3)
Only words on screen: Asselberghs bridges political, avant-garde cinema and the ubiquitous telephone text message. -
USSA
Diaristic images of USA and USSR are inventively juxtaposed to stress not differences but similarities. -
Am I Human?
Lou hurls images of herself against torrents of loading files, digital code and media imagery. -
wandering through secret storms
Images of women doing office work are mixed with redacted FBI notations. Does freedom exist? -
TV & VT-Works
A series of artistic interventions interrogating the mechanisms of television production and spectatorship.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2020
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 2'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
