New Selected Artists' Moving Image

Programme

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  This Is (Not) Your Ocean (Jordi Wijnalda, NL/BE 2024, 14’)

  Queer bodies attract, fall in love, falter, perish. Are our bodies more vulnerable, and therefore our loves, too? A poetic video letter; an intimate experiment of image and sound, of heart, head and hormones; and a loving ode to those who have passed on before memories together could be made.

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  Rio das Mortes (Flora Reznik, NL/BR 2025, 14’)

  In the heart of the Amazon, a lost Indonesian rubber tire drifts with the river current of the Rio das Mortes. On its final journey downstream, it listens to the secrets shared by the local inhabitants that speak of a fragile ecosystem under threat and of the powerful spirits of the river they call home. Along the way, the drifting tire awakens an ancestral memory that binds it to this turbulent place.

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  Misty Man (Ansuya Blom, NL 2024, 16’)

  A young man has been accused of theft. We see him behind barbed wire, falling in slow motion onto the grass. The artist Ansuya Blom alternates this powerful image and others, such as a group of pelicans screeching around a fishing boat, with 8 mm recordings of a first communion procession from her family archive.

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  Like the Glitch of a Ghost (Paula Albuquerque, NL 2023, 18’)

  Researching at the Eye Filmmuseum archive, Paula Albuquerque found a piece of religious/medical propaganda from the 1950s. Shot in Suriname, the original footage was meant to show the supporting role that the Dutch settlers created for themselves, establishing a regime of indebtedness and justifying territorial dispossession and biopolitical power dynamics in former colonies.
  
  Like the Glitch of a Ghost is a fake double, which introduces a glitch that actualises the archive through a problem and affirms the vital sovereignty of those who were depicted as subaltern. It will haunt the archive, like ghosts haunt the images we are still learning to perceive.