Conceal/Reveal: pop-up festival of lockdown essay films (Arts Weeks 2021)
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Online
Jarman Lab presents six essayistic film works made in the year when much creative activity reverted to the pre-social stage of human endeavour: working in solitude at home.
Conceal/reveal: a pop-up festival of lockdown essay films showcases essayistic works made in the year when much of the creative activity reverted to the pre-social stage of human endeavour. Confined to solitary, yet technologically enhanced urban caves, filmmakers were forced to work within constraints dictated as much by protocols of permissible behaviour as by the psychological pressure of living in the mist of the pandemic. Searching for a historical truth, illusions of perception and imaging the future come to the fore as the recurring themes of the presented films and their acute responses to the concerns of today. A programme of 7 short essay films will be followed by a moderated Q&A online session with the filmmakers.
The opening film of the festival is Lily Ford’s latest audio-visual essay ‘Chasing the Revolution: Marie Langer, Psychoanalysis and Society,’ a riveting story about one of the foremost Argentinian psychoanalysts unfolding in a collage of zoom interviews and archive material. It is accompanied by a selection of short films produced by attendees of the Jarman Lab’s ‘Audio-visual practice as research’ course, including Márcio Cruz, Cynthia Cabanas Gonzales, Katherine Mitchell and Thilini Prasadika. The closing film of the programme is 'Nothing Exists Until You Sell It' by Bartek Dziadosz, an uncompromising mesh-up of commercials and insights into inner workings of the advertising industry.
After booking, you will receive an email nearer the date of the festival with details of how to watch the films and participate in the Q&A session.
How to join this event
This event takes place online. You will receive an email one hour before the start of the event with a link to join. The email will come from messenger@bbk.ac.uk - please check your junk/spam inbox if you have not received the email one hour before the start of the event.
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