Drive Recovery, v.2

Wednesday October 23rd, 2024
7pm
Programmed by Maja Čule

This screening brings together films which are retelling and revising events from the past, preserving historical memories and influencing present narratives. The experience of looking back in time is like plugging in a broken storage device that underwent a data recovery— previously invisible, perhaps repressed and unconscious, memories resurface. The screened films show us what was previously unseen.

In Miloš Trakilović's film All But War Is Simulation (2020), a Post-It note scrawled with a list of possessions that a refugee family plans to take before they have to leave their home is a starting point for an argument about the right to memories. Vika Kirchenbauer, in her film The Capacity for Adequate Anger (2021), returns to her childhood home after an absence of over ten years. The film incorporates images from the journey, as well as family portraits, scans of childhood drawings, and CD booklets. All this serves to create a portrait of a younger self, exploring distance in relation to one's own life. Jonna Kina's Secret Words and Related Stories (2013-2016)  gathers stories about internet passwords, exploring the ways that the coding of physical history and memory becomes an access key to complex kinds of commerce and services in the virtual world. In Martine Syms’ The Fool (2021), a narrator describes a brief encounter with their crush in a hazy, dream-like journey. Finally, Nicole Hewitt's Jasna 01/Pictures (2015) ambushes protagonist Jasna, who ventures deeper into intimate and personal encounters with her community, who relay their own stories about Jasna back to her. The film also explores Jasna's own encounters with available data about her life, such as court transcripts and job applications.

Artists:

Jonna Kina works across a variety of mediums including sound, sculpture, film, language, performance and installation. By unveiling and deconstructing forms and methods, her works often incorporate narratives of translation and transformation. She lives and works in Finland. jonnakina.com

Vika Kirchenbauer is an artist, writer and music producer based in Berlin. Through video, installation, music, and theoretical writing, Kirchenbauer’s work negotiates the role of effects in the field of contemporary art and questions the ways in which marginalized bodies become experienceable in exhibition spaces. vk0ms.com

Martine Syms works with fiction and a research-based practice, in publishing, video, installation, and performance. Martine’s artistic endeavors revolve around themes of identity, particularly the representation of the self, with a focus on feminism and black culture. martinesy.ms

Nicole Hewitt is a visual artist working in film, video, installation, performance and text. Her work has recently been concerned with memory, history and narrative as mediated through technologies of representation and preservation, she is living and working in Croatia and the UK. pangolin.hr

Miloš Trakilović is a Bosnian-Dutch artist. His work is concerned with how perception is organized; exploring issues of dissolution, fragmentation and disappearance. Working with digital media in the form of moving image, installation, lectures and writings, he exposes the ways personal, political and poetic are inherently interwoven. milostrakilovic.net