Piet Zwart Institute: Everytime the screen goes black, time cracks

In Troy Borden’s ‘Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema’, the spectator of film experiences genres through the sensarium; their bodies capacity and collective senses to understand what is horror, mellow drama, sensuality, and more. But they can only start filling the gaps when the director decides to let them, through the cuts, the pace and absence of image, only then, a visual cleanser is possible, a moment of refusal or acceptance. You lead the narrative, your gaze directs the sensorium.

With this screening program, we invite you to welcome the black screen where reality tears as a chance to test your agency as a spectator, not to ask what genre this is, but to play the game of rewiring, rescripting, and unfolding various truths as time cracks.