[Commlist] Film Undone – Elements of a Latent Cinema

Film Undone – Elements of a Latent Cinema
Fri 6 and Sat 7 December 2024, London, ICA (Fri) & Birkbeck Cinema (Sat)

https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.cfm?event_id=26185465

Film Undone convenes artists, filmmakers, curators, researchers, and 
archivists to present 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.

Bringing them together as Elements of a Latent Cinema opens a space to 
consider cases from various political geographies and historical moments 
in relation to each other. Latency prompts 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.

In London, adaptations of previously presented and new contributions 
will map out a variety of approaches of detecting and restoring such 
potentiality. 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?

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 and the ICA.
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