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Displaced outside of the cinema, the films invite us to form a new assembly. The series a cinema situation concentrates not only on the films but also on the potentiality of this assembly and, more widely, on the social practices that have contributed to the creation of new film cultures – film societies, cineclubs, film-makers clubs within decolonial movements, video salons, film workshops, etc. – by establishing other modes of production and distribution, by setting up spaces of freedom, sites for emergent subjectivities. The series would have us question our relation to the films, to their images, complicating it by a “situation”, |
a cinema situation: Stills from a film that is missing Promises of a New Form Exhibition Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade 12-19 December 2018 Research Forum 14 December 2018 Akademski filmski centar, Dom kulture Studentski grad, Belgrade Reader Edited by Raphaël Cuomo and Maria Iorio Translations: Simon Chapman, Adnen Jdey, Ahmed Refaat, Mohammed Saleh Published by Archive Books, Berlin alternativefilmvideo.org [1][2] • a cinema situation: that relation between us, or among us That relation between us, or among us follows bodies on the move, their action, retracing displacements and transitions, but also those passages from one place to another constituted by acts of translation. The programme recovers some of those moments recorded by the camera: it examines the process of an "experimental archaeology of the present"; it exposes diachronies, the shifts between different border regimes, the continuities of power and the subjectivities that resist it. The programme reconstructs transnational counter-histories as they emerge from the productions and practices of "minor", decolonial, accented cinemas: they oppose the fiction of an ever-present migration emergency – an "emergency" produced and perpetuated by European policies that make people illegal, by borderisation and spectacularisation mechanisms, and which goes from one "crisis" to the next. What comes to light in the films of this programme, and what is also at stake for the praxis they invented, is a relation. This arises from the action of bodies that appear, speak out, take up the camera, became visible or imperceptible, when they act in concert and invent new forms of alliance, solidarity and commonality. Beyond the chronicles of this action that articulates a principle of equality, what is therefore at stake here is nothing less than freedom – that "relation that can and does happen between us, or indeed among us" – and, ultimately the politics of the possible. Screening Il deserto e il mare (The desert and the sea), 2007 Introduction and discussion with Dagmawi Yimer, Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo Archive Kabinett, Berlin, D 8 September, 2018, 7pm www.archivekabinett.org www.acinemasituation.org • a cinema situation: that relation between us, or among us Screening Lottando la vita (Videobase, 1975, 99') Introduction and discussion with Annamaria Licciardello Archive Kabinett, Berlin, D 26 May, 2018, 7pm www.archivekabinett.org www.acinemasituation.org • a cinema situation: Le cinéma hors les murs Cinema beyond its frame Screening and and performative presentation by Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo with Cindy Bannani, Lisa Cerezal Ornellana aka Alix, Raphaël Cuomo, Binta Diaw, Hugo Dunas-Wald, Stella Giger, Maria Iorio, Maria Norte-Fonseca, Aram Shbib, Fabien Viola Why make films? How to make films? For who? To change what? These are all questions that Deux festivals à Grenoble (1974) prompts us to ask (again), and they are as pressing now as when Egyptian filmmaker Atiat El Abnoudi was shooting the images for her film at the Grenoble International Short Film Festival and its decentralised outreach screenings across the region. By recreating a screening from the 1973 extramural programme, this evening retraces contacts, transfers and affinities between a forgotten episode of local film history and the amateur, militant, decolonial film culture that emerged in North Africa at the beginning of the 1970s – thereby revealing the contours of a transnational cine-geography of “minor cinemas”. The screening includes the films shown during a seance at the St Hilaire du Touvet students’ cineclub on 10th February 1974: Horse of Mud (1971, 12’) and Sad song of Touha (1972, 12’) by Atiat El Abnoudi, Seuils interdits (1972, 35’) de Ridha Béhi; followed by Deux festivals à Grenoble (1974, 28’) by Atiat El Abnoudi, a film made by a group of professional and amateur filmmakers as part of a series of workshops organised by the Grenoble Short Film Festival Activities Committee. Cinémathèque de Grenoble, Grenoble 18 January 2018 cinemathequedegrenoble.fr • a cinema situation: For the love of the thing Ateyyat El Abnoudi in Grenoble 5-days workshop with Raphaël Cuomo, Maria Iorio Ecole supérieure d’art et de design (ESAD), Grenoble 8-10 novembre 2017 esad-gv.fr • a cinema situation: For the love of the thing 3-days workshop with Raphaël Cuomo, Maria Iorio and Habib Mestiri Contemporary image Collective (CiC) 21 - 23 February 2017 ciccairo.com • a cinema situation: For the love of the thing Screening Cimatheque – Alternative Film Center, Cairo 20 February 2017 cimatheque.org |