Basma Al-Sharif, We Began By Measuring Distance, 2009 by Gabby Moser The complex interplay of text and image in representing cultural differences is the theme that underpins Friday’s On Screen program, All Our Memories Significant in Retrospect. Curated by Images’ 2011 curatorial resident, cheyanne turions, the program features three films that use language, translation and [...]
Melancholy Measurements: Preview of Friday’s “All Our Memories Significant in Retrospect” program
April 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Gabby Moser's Blog
Tags:age·Arabic·B.S. Johnson·colonialism·distance·nationalism·Palestine·text·translation·trauma·Truffaut
War and other games: Preview of On Screen’s “And Again” Program
April 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · Jen Hutton's Blog
By Jen Hutton If Saturday night’s alright for fighting, why not see a few films about the subject? Taking its title from one of the films in this screening, tonight’s On Screen program, And Again, presents a trio of films that draw attention to the grander themes of war and colonialism but specifically on their indirect [...]
Tags:Afghanistan·colonialism·counter-terrorism·history·Iraq·On Screen·re-enactment·truth is stranger than fiction·Vietnam·war