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Cinema Suitcase: Dis-economy of life

On Migratory Aesthetics, Travelling Concepts & Organization of Economic Life

Cinema Suitcase is an international group of filmmakers pursuing projects of experimental social documentary.

Coming from a diversity of fields in the visual arts, they seek to facilitate the self-narration of their subjects, always encountered on the basis of a great intimacy, rather than constructing their stories for them. This approach enhances the performative quality of filmmaking as a collective process. The group consists of (in alphabetic order): Mieke Bal, Zen Marie, Thomas Sykora, Gary Ward, Michelle Williams.

The 4-screen video installation Nothing is Missing attends to the people never talked about, all but invisible, who most poignantly suffer the loss of the departure of migrants from their communities: the mothers. Colony is a tale of a lost system of production, of colonization and hierarchy and the politics surrounding the work of individuals whose lives became entwined in a global vision. The film opens but does not answer the question so crucial to the contemporary world: is the overcoming of colonialism ever able to avoid neo-colonialism? The film is political in its critical presentation of both past ideals and contemporary alternatives. Two films, made by the collective, explore the impact of the current repressive politics of migration on individual lives (Mille et un jours; Access Denied). While the former film is an experimental narrative that balances classical form with Arabic tradition, and a joyful present with recent and past trauma, the latter film also questions the ways this political climate affects the possibility to make art.

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The exhibition is co-organised by Marko Stamenkovic (*1977), art historian, critic and curator based in Belgrade (Serbia), Gordan Karabogdan ( artist, Zagreb) and Nikica Klobučar ( art historian, Zagreb)

 




 

 



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Type of programme: exhibition
Lasting time: 27.10.2006. - 09.11.2006.

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