Takeover: V. Screen Takeover
Do Not Circulate
Tiffany Sia
2021
17 Minutes
Date
Repeat: Dec 15-16 ET
This experimental short film considers the materiality of video in networked circulation, unraveling the entrails of a collective memory around a single event. Paced by an essay as a relentless voiceover, the film rips footage that challenges the ownership and legal boundaries of documentation. The film weaves a violent timeline in roughly the order that the materials were published online, including anonymously uploaded videos from Twitter and internet forums, allegedly leaked audio, and news reportage—much of which has since been erased, disavowed or forgotten. A digital media trail teeters between the seeable and unseeable, deception and truth, conjuring ghosts and occult forces on the timeline.
This screening is part of Screen Takeover, the fifth chapter of the online program Takeover curated by Julian Ross for e-flux Video & Film, and unfolding in six chapters between September 22 and December 15, 2022, with the films and videos of each chapter streaming for two weeks.
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.