EYE(S) OPEN. NEW PERSPECTIVES ON COLONIAL FILM HERITAGE

Eye(s) Open: New Perspectives on Film Heritage from Colonial Times invites eleven artists to respond to the Eye Filmmuseum's collection of approximately 2,600 colonial-era films spanning the Dutch East Indies, Suriname, and the Antilles. The artists explore the ethical risks and capacities of engaging with a colonial film archive. From different geographic positions, they examine the role of the camera and moving image in instantiating power. Taking radically differing approaches, they also show how these technologies can be subverted...[Leer más]