This selection brings together several of her own films in dialogue with works by other artists such as. Set against a backdrop of domestic interiors, unsettling figures and animated objects, these films draw on a range of cinematic genres, from melodrama to horror and musicals.

Echoing the Prom exhibition, this selection explores cinematic archetypes and offers a broader reflection on the medium of film.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with the artist.

Programme:

→ O, Persecuted by Basma Al-Sharif, 2014, PS/UK, digital, sound, 12 min
O, Persecuted transforms the restoration of the 1974 film Our Small Houses, directed by Kassem Hawal and dedicated to Palestinian activists, into a performance that can only take shape through cinema, where speed, the body and the passage from the past to a future where ideology clashes with escape intertwine.

→ Bedtime Stories 1, 2, 3 by Harun Farocki, 1977, DE, digital, sound, 3 min
Partly to support his family, Farocki made short films for children for German public television. In these bedtime stories, he uses simple objects – bridges, railway tracks and boats – to illustrate cinematic techniques. Two little girls, his daughters, engage in a poetic game, bridging the gap between wakefulness and dreams.

→ Flying Glove by Giulia Piscitelli, 2023, DE/IT, digital, 2 min
Flying Glove is a series of three animated gloves inflated by the wind. These animations, created using traditional animation techniques and filmed on 16mm black-and-white film, constitute a study of repetition, light and movement.

→ Twelve Tales Told by Johann Lurf, 2014, AT, digital, sound, 4 mins
Johann Lurf’s maximalist deluge of Hollywood studio logos transforms these iconic preludes heralding major upcoming productions into a prolonged, jerky spectacle, where fractured, fantastical worlds collide to culminate in a grandiloquent anticlimax.

→ Monelle by Diego Marcon, 2017, IT, digital, sound, 16 min

Through jerky flashes of light, Marcon illuminates unsettling silhouettes in the dark rooms of Giuseppe Terragni’s Casa del Fascio in Como – images that echo its politically charged history.

→ TINPO by Diego Marcon, 2006, 2 min 
TINPO shows footage of Diego Marcon’s young cousins running riot with a toy gun, edited to form a relentless cacophony of violence.

→ Fritz by Diego Marcon, 2024, IT/UK/DE, digital, sound, 4 min
Inside a hangar lit by the autumn dawn, a young boy, suspended from a rope, begins to yodel. Traditionally used in the Central Alps to call livestock back to the barn or to communicate with distant villages, Fritz’s yodel is here a muffled call and a sombre requiem, accompanied by other voices answering him from the neighbouring valleys and mountains.

→ Untitled (All Pigs Must Die) by Diego Marcon, 2015, IT, digital, sound, 10 mins
In Untitled (All Pigs Must Die), an excerpt from the Walt Disney cartoon Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968), in which Piglet knocks on Owl’s window, is edited together with a fragment of film showing different shades of red.

→ Love Doll Resurrect by Sidsel Meineche Hansen, 2019, DK, digital, 1 min
An animated film featuring zombies and exploring post-human sex: it forms part of Meineche Hansen’s artistic reflection on automated sex and the new pornographic language of algorithmic visualisation.

→ Untitled by Giulia Piscitelli, 1997, 2 mins 

→ Your Face by Bill Plympton, 1987, US, digital, sound, 3 mins
A true relic of MTV’s golden age, Your Face left its mark on its era and launched Bill Plympton’s career. Whilst a second-rate crooner sings of the beauty of his beloved’s face, his own face metamorphoses into a succession of the most surreal forms and contortions.

→ Untitled (Vampire) by Peter Wächtler, 2019, Germany, digital, 12 mins
Peter Wächtler’s silent film paints a fascinating portrait of a solipsistic vampire, played by Wächtler himself, and the reclusive life he leads in a castle perched high in the mountains. In his diary-style narratives, existentialism rubs shoulders with the small pleasures of consumer culture in the strangest yet most plausible way imaginable.