Film Programme
28 February 2025
How does artists’ moving image address archival gaps, exclusions, erasures and absences to evoke and create space for diasporic, exilic, migratory and displaced memory?
Episode 3: Precarious Memory considers the role of moving image in mediating and producing cultural memory, exploring how artistic methods of sampling, imitation, fragmentation and aurality can activate the archive as a site of negotiation between the individual and the collective, the intimate and the political, history and memory, representation and exclusion.
The screening programme reflects on how artists engage the precarity of memory itself across political contexts of displacement, exile, and repression, and between generations and geographies, using film as a tool to gather fragments of social and individual remembrance, redress misrepresentations, gaps and exclusions, and construct personal archives of living histories.
Films
‘Nazarbazi نظربازی’, Maryam Tafakory (2022)
‘Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)’, Suneil Sanzgiri (2024)
‘UNDR’, Kamal Aljafari (2024)
‘Another Decade’, Morgan Quaintance (2018)
In conversation: Morgan Quaintance and Anne-Marie Copestake
Moving Images Within Precarious Structures is supported by the School of Fine Art (SoFA), Glasgow School of Art, the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, and is a partnership between the School of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, and LUX Scotland.
LUX Scotland Episode 3: Precarious Memory
Film Programme, Artists’ Moving Image, Artist Talk, Curatorial Research, Archives