Memories in Strife

We are looking forward to watching and talking films with you in the space of our UNITED SCREENS project partner Wekalet Behna in Alexandria. We bring to you two films that unpack the strife between archival memory in cinema and political imaginaries imposed by the hegemonies of the time these films were made in. The Indonesian essay film The Myriad of Faces of the Future Challengers made by I Gde Suardiatmika and Yuki Aditya highlights the changing aesthetic phases of pre- and post-reformation cinema in Indonesia. And the film How to reverse a spell: the promise of an archive made by Moroccan filmmaker Yasmine Benabdallah, is a speculative triptych that traverses the disappearance and erasure of the Moroccan public archives, the colonial displacement of videos, and finally the prayer for a solar flare for things to go back to how they never were.