Against the Screen

getty abortions
Franzis Kabisch, Germany, Austria, 2023, 21 min. English

Blue Boy
Manuel Abramovich, Germany, Argentina, 2019, 19 min. German, Romanian with English subtitles

Hansa Boy etwas das kommt nie wieder vor
virgil b/g taylor, Germany, 2021, 11 min. English, German with English subtitles

A Certain Love For Symmetry
Marlene Denningmann, Germany, 2019, 8 min. German with English subtitles

Sixty Nine Club
Rob Eagle, United Kingdom, 2019, 21 min. English

Barbès
Randa Maroufi, France, 2019, 6 min. No Dialogue

Curated by Thomas Schallhart

Content notes: mention of abortion

What happens when the screen stops being a window and becomes a site of investigation? Who controls the image? Who profits from it? How can we steal it back? This program brings together films that turn the apparatus of looking back on itself, interrogating stock photography, surveillance, home movies and the desktop.