No Archive Can Restore You
In the shadow of today’s Nigerian Film Corporation building stands the former Nigerian Film Unit, one of the first self-directed outposts of the British Colonial Film Unit. Taking its title from Juliette Singh’s 2018 book, No Archive Can Restore You depicts the spatial configuration of this colonial archive, imagining its ‘lost’ films in distinctive soundscapes, juxtaposed with images of the abandoned building. An exploration into the ‘sonic shadows’ that colonial moving images continue to generate.
– Olaf Möller
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? -
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. -
Dreams Under Confinement
A sobering, chilling mash-up of frantic Chicago Police audio messages with sinister Google Maps imagery.
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2020
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
