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We cordially invite you to an evening of film and performance with the artist duo OJOBOCA (Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy) reimagining lost works, little-known in cinema history, through the act of reconstruction.

Please join us to watch together these two films:

Instant Life (16mm, 27 min, 2022), co-directed with Andrew Kim, is a shot-for-shot remake of a lost 1981 film – itself a remake of the original Instant Life (1941). The earlier film is lost, along with the answer to a riddle it posed to its audience. This new version attempts to reveal the mystery of the riddle – though no solution exists.

Distant Feeler (35mm slides, 36 min, 2022), OJOBOCA resurrects a device conceived by the artist duo Goliatus & Carábida in their attempt to create a telepathic cinema. Using recovered fragments and slides, they offer their own reconstruction of the mechanism, demonstrate its effects, and present Goliatus & Carábida's original manifesto.

OJOBOCA is a Berlin-based artist duo formed by Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy. Their artistic practice focuses on photochemical film and explores cinema as a social ritual. OJOBOCA’s films, installations, and expanded cinema performances have been shown in numerous solo and group presentations, that have been screened at film festivals and art venues worldwide.