Streamed on 3 March 2024, 12:00 - 00:00

2021, 8 min 32 sec

Strong Loneliness is a video that belongs to the project Lantern Strike (Strong Loneliness) which I started in 2021. At the time, I wrote the text below and hope to use this chance to revisit:

Lantern Strike as a phrase is inspired by a conversation I had with a friend about nature (non-human) strikes. In the on-going Myanmar protests, protesters imagined and staged Flower Strike, Reborn Strike, Dawn Strike, and Anti-coup Paper Boat Strike. If there is something I want to share in this moment, perhaps it has to be the potential of how language was used in an extremely poetic manner and the imagination came along with those words demonstrated in the movements of Hong Kong, Thailand, and Myanmar from 2019-2021.

Lantern Strike also departs from a question: In what form, cinema could be closer to that which is going beyond boundaries of language, border, geography, as a nationless subject. The narrative of this project takes place in quasi-fictional Asia, where paper lanterns once existed as a source of light and ceremonial objects. I plan to study the transcultural and transnational history of these objects, interpreting them as spiritual and technological precursors to the development of early cinema in Asia—a development which is deeply historically entwined with capitalism, colonialism, nationalism and globalization. Defining cinema through its basic abstract unit—light, I search for the transnational origins of early Asian motion pictures. Lantern Strike leads to imaginative past and speculative technologies, which are given by the absent (invisible) historical beginnings of early cinema.

The new forms of lanterns in the exhibition were crafted according to various geographical locations and their historicity, including Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines. They functioned as a source of light but also as a kind of encoder of movements (shadows). They are experimental devices that record what may be seen as a suggestion of the bodies via isolating shadows.

This video is a compilation of footage collected by my paper-shadow-encoder-lanterns and exists as a mark of my thinking and feeling for that time.

Streamed on 4 February 2024, 12:00 - 00:00

2020, single-channel video, Julian Schnabel’s voice

Standard explores the relationship between absurdity and pathos within the archetype of the macho artist persona. Julian Schnabel’s bravado-laden monologue emanates from a gleaming bird's skull - drawing parallels with the elaborate and visually showy courtship behaviour of birds of paradise.

@theo_ellison

Streamed on 17 December 2023, 12:00 - 21:00 approx.

Infinite Tony is a 12-hour live stream showing the video game Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, in which Tony Hawk is skating around New York City at night.

The game is left to run without any player, leaving Tony to move forwards infinitely. This would have created an eternal loop of predetermined routes, if it was not being continuously broken by three roaming taxis which disrupt the repetition.

Streamed on 26 November 2023, 12:00 - 00:00

The stream presented two versions of the same film by artist Morag Keil: Marly Ingva Axewell Andra Nikolas Eliya Margen, filmed in Lafayette Galleries, Berlin in 2011 and Shopping, the re-filmed version filmed in a Yorkshire department store in 2018.

Both films present an IRL computer game devoid of any rules and appearing to have no beginning nor end. The editing is determined by when the participants cross each other's path and the view switches to the camera feed they have intercepted. The sound effects are taken from the video game Halo 2.

Morag Keil via Project Native Informant

Streamed on 29 October 2023, 12:00 - 00:00

México | 2021 | 16mm | color | stereo | 16 minutos

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos (Tehuacán) is a Mexican film collective founded in 2012 to dismantle the commercial and corporate audiovisual grammar and its embedded ideology. The collective is inspired by the historical avant-gardes, and their commitment to using both form and content against alienating realities. Their methods combine digital and analog mediums, interventions on archival materials, mythology, agitprop, social protests, and documentary poetry. Their radical experimentations on documentary and cinematographic devices produce images, both visual and auditory that are political possibilities in their own right.

Streamed on 3 September 2023, 12:00 - 00:00

2021, stereo audio with HD video, 10 minutes 40 seconds

The narrator’s optimistic mood after changing the bedding is trailed by a series of ‘resolute thuds’; setting down a vase, a wheelie bin lid closing, and debris falling from a gaping hole in the ceiling. Their attempt to restore the orderliness of the room is negated as the room and mood deteriorate. Point-of-view is rattled through glimpses and glances, digressions and a heightened self-awareness. Recurring ‘resolute thuds’ suspend any sense of finality and resolution.

www.lydiadavies.co.uk

Streamed on 30 July 2023, 12:00 - 00:00

Choreography: Pierre Babbage

Music mixed by Harve (Tracks Helen Mirrell, BEBELUNA)

Filmed and edited by Rosie Powell

Film produced by Raze Collective

@movementbypierre @callmeharve @rosiepowellfreelance @itsbebeluna @razecollective

Streamed on 2 July 2023, 12:00 - 00:00

The Sky Oscillates Between Eternity and Its Immediate Consequences is a work exploring how the future of smart cities relies on the promise of “sustainable” closed systems in the face of health and ecological crises. Two protagonists narrate how the control, isolation, and exploitation of time including environmental life cycles, seasons, and organisms’ lifetimes form the blueprint to achieve such futuristic visions.

www.nadimchoufi.com