Event series
Friday, 6 - Saturday, 7 December 2024
Film Undone – Elements of a Latent Cinema
Filmseries
Film Undone – Elements of a Latent Cinema convenes artists, filmmakers, curators, researchers, and archivists to present and discuss unmade and unfinished film projects, film ideas realised in non-filmic media, as well as films that remained unseen in their intended form and at their intended time. An initial event in Berlin in 2023 and a book published in 2024 gathered tentative and careful probes dedicated to singular projects reflecting the importance of primary materials before and beyond the film.
Latency prompts us to think differently about what has remained invisible in cinema than under deficit-centred categories like failure, loss, or incompletion. It marks a sustained potentiality for things to change their condition, to affect us and put us in motion. During the London iteration of Film Undone, adaptations of previously presented and new contributions will map out a variety of approaches of detecting and restoring such potentiality.
This programme aims to open a space to consider cases from various political geographies and historical moments in relation to each other. In a joint roundtable, invited contributors and local respondents will discuss the spatiotemporal vectors of a latent cinema: Where do we encounter its traces and how do actualisations of unconcluded processes trouble our understanding of their pastness?
Philip Widmann
Film Undone – Elements of a Latent Cinema is curated by Philip Widmann, and features contributions from Alejandro Alvarado, Concha Barquero, George Clark, Olexii Kuchanskyi, Léa Morin, Bunga Siagian and Mathilde Rouxel. Organised in partnership by Open City Documentary Festival,Goethe-Institut London, Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, ICA and the Barbican.
Latency prompts us to think differently about what has remained invisible in cinema than under deficit-centred categories like failure, loss, or incompletion. It marks a sustained potentiality for things to change their condition, to affect us and put us in motion. During the London iteration of Film Undone, adaptations of previously presented and new contributions will map out a variety of approaches of detecting and restoring such potentiality.
This programme aims to open a space to consider cases from various political geographies and historical moments in relation to each other. In a joint roundtable, invited contributors and local respondents will discuss the spatiotemporal vectors of a latent cinema: Where do we encounter its traces and how do actualisations of unconcluded processes trouble our understanding of their pastness?
Philip Widmann
Film Undone – Elements of a Latent Cinema is curated by Philip Widmann, and features contributions from Alejandro Alvarado, Concha Barquero, George Clark, Olexii Kuchanskyi, Léa Morin, Bunga Siagian and Mathilde Rouxel. Organised in partnership by Open City Documentary Festival,Goethe-Institut London, Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, ICA and the Barbican.