In conjunction with the group exhibition Atavism for the Future, artist and filmmaker Jeffrey Stuker has organized a film screening event at the gallery on Sunday December 3 2023 at 2:30pm, featuring ten films made between 1916 and 2020. The screening explores the ways in which images and artifacts are collected in order to narrate the history - or shape the time - of an era in a manner that is purportedly without contestation. Starting with an extended reflection on the archive, the films in this screening interrogate the logistics of recording devices, aspect ratios, framerates, and codecs - viewed no longer as mere protocols that enable clear representations, but as inscriptions of social control.

Following the screening, Stuker will be in conversation with artist, Lakshmi Luthra who is Associate Professor of Art and Film & Media Studies at Colgate University, New York and co-editor of Effects.

Program
Charlie Chaplin, The Pawn shop, 1916
Alain Resnais, Toute la mémoire du monde, 1956
Hollis Frampton, Nostalgia, 1971
Harun Farocki, Still Life, 1997 (Selection)
Silvia Kolbowski, An Inadequate History of Conceptual Art, 1998-99
Arthur Jafa, Apex, 2013
Hito Steyerl, How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013
Lakshmi Luthra, Notes on the Desert, 2015
Onyeka Igwe, No Archive Can Restore You, 2020