Admission starts at $5
February 22, 2024, 7pm
Brooklyn, NY 11205
USA
We are delighted to invite you to the first of a special three-part screening of artists’ films presented by e-flux Film Award and curated by the award’s 2023 pre-selection committee members. This exploration of the forefront of recent artists’ films starts on Thursday, February 22 at 7pm, and features works by José Cardoso, Nour Ouayda, and Riar Rizaldi introduced by pre-selection committee member Dmitry Frolov. See details on Parts II and III, which take place on Saturday, February 24, here.
Films
José Cardoso, What the Soil Remembers
Ecuador/South Africa
2022, 29 minutes
In 1960s South Africa, a close-knit community from Die Vlakte was forcibly and violently uprooted to make way for the Stellenbosch University as part of the Apartheid regime’s segregation measures. What the Soil Remembers recounts the traumatic effect displacement had on residents by bringing to the foreground a university that is still grappling with its racist legacy. To this day, the Die Vlakte community is fighting for justice and seeking reparations with little to no tangible solutions. (Lyse Ishimwe Nsengiyumva)
Nour Ouayda, The Secret Garden
Lebanon
2023, 27 minutes
The inhabitants of a city awake one morning to find that never-before-seen trees, plants, and flowers suddenly erupted throughout the streets and in the squares. Strange and mysterious events start taking place as Camelia and Nahla investigate the origins of these new and peculiar creatures.
Riar Rizaldi, Notes from Gog Magog
Indonesia/South Korea,
2022, 19 minutes
An exploration of the interconnection between ghost stories, tech company culture in South Korea, and the economy of logistics in Indonesia told through a notebook/premake film, and a dossier of an unmade techno-horror feature-length film set in between a port in Jakarta and an unnamed employee assistance program office in Seoul.
About e-flux Film Award
e-flux Film Award is a prize for artists’ films that push the boundaries of the aesthetic and critical potential of moving images in the age of planetary circulation of information. Selected by a jury of distinguished artists, filmmakers, and film selectors and curators from open submissions, it is awarded annually. e-flux Film Award welcomes submissions from both emerging and established artists who subvert and redefine traditional narrative forms and broaden our understanding and perception through the mastery of both film form and content. “How does one see what is hidden behind the images?,” Harun Farocki once asked. In line with e-flux Film’s programming that aims to challenge the expectations established by the commodification of moving-image art and to facilitate the critical discussion of artists’ films, e-flux Film Award is committed to recognizing works that deviate from the dominant and conventional regimes of visibility providing insightful and critical perspectives on today’s world.
For more information, contact program [at] e-flux.com.
Accessibility
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– For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
– e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the Screening Room and this bathroom.