![]() ![]() Journal No.1 An Artists Impression – Hito SteyerlĪn Artist’s Impression depicts an attempt by Hito Steyerl to reconstruct a Bosnian newsreel originally made in 1947 and subsequently destroyed in the 1990's during the Bosnian war. The resulting image is an impossible document: the simultaneous presence of several states that could have been. The fragments have been edited by superimposing the different takings of the same scenes. Remake was created from a Super 8mm film shot in the 1980’s. As we move through unedited interviews weaved with false starts, preparation for the camera, an inappropriate grin and a pregnant silence we see the story of the assassination change and grow with its power.īy repetitively intertwining television reports of two very different but significant women – one a beauty queen and the other a student activist – Menz examines the differing roles and expectations for women during the brutal dictatorship of Pinochet in the 1980s and the mass-media’s construction of public memory. Jacobs stumbled across this ‘Perfect Film’ containing raw eyewitness accounts on the assassination of Malcolm X, and didn’t touch it at all. Her statements are juxtaposed with black and white excerpts of text by photography curator Clément Chéroux published in his work Memory of the Camps. Over a white screen, Rosemarie Nief, head of the photographic archive at the Institute of Contemporary History, analyses the ways in which the media represent photo documents of the Holocaust. This short video by group of female artists Klub Zwei questions the use and misuse of images presented as historical documents and their subsequent meaning in the present. ![]() There will also be a chance to view our exhibition Hidden by Red Saunders, which recreates momentous but overlooked events in the history of Britain’s struggle for democracy and equality.īlack and White: the other side of images – Klub Zwei Programmed in collaboration with Cherry Kino. Join us for a relaxed afternoon of artists films exploring the transmission of history and the construction of collective memory.
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