Film Programming

Six Minutes

Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam

June 2025

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The Journey of the Hyena

Rijksakademie, Amsterdam

April 2024

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Artists’ cinema, video and experimental film program

Nairobi, July 2023: Link to program details

Nairobi, October 2022: Link to program details

The Reading Room

2025

• -Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race:  Kathryn Yusoff
• -On Matter Beyond the Equation of Value: Denise Ferreira da Silva
• –Interview: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson on Becoming Human
• -Remaindered Life: Neferti X. M. Tadiar
• -To See the Earth Before the End of the World: Ed Roberson
• -The Comet: W.E.B. du bois
• -The End of White Supremacy, An American Romance: Saidiya Hartman
• –Cinenova
• –Metode
• -Some of us did not die: New and selected essays of June Jordan
• –June Jordan appearing in Allen Ginsberg’s 1989 Brooklyn College class. Audio
• -The Anarchist Library
• -Drawings, prints and other archival material: The Collections Room at the Rijksakademie
• –Errant Journal
• -Exquisite Edition: Lithography transfer tests on newsprint paper with handwritten text: Jackie Karuti
• –100cm: Drypoint print of a foldable ruler. 10cm when folded, 100cm when unfolded: Jackie Karuti
• -Chasing Muybridge: A flip book to accompany 24 projected slides: Jackie Karuti
• -Sleeping Sickness (working title)- a screenplay treatment: Jackie Karuti
• -Snail on the Slope: Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
• –Matter Mattering Matters– A Scienticity Reader: Edited by Kabelo Malatsie & Lantian Xie
• -Flip book collection & limited edition artist books at the Rijksakademie Library
• -Solidarity Must Be Defended: Edited by Eszter Szakács & Naeem Mohaiemen
• -Thami Mnyele + MEDU Art ensemble retrospective: Edited by Clive Kellner & Sergio-Albio González
• -Decolonising Design Education-Schools of Departure No.1: Edited by Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
• -Fascinating Fascism: Susan Sontag
• -She Unnames Them: Ursula K. Le Guin
• -Your History with Me. The Films of Penny Siopis
• -De grafiek van Goya: Rijksmuseum/Rijksprentenkabinet. Amsterdam 13 November 1970 – 17 January 1971
• -In Defense of the Poor Image: Hito Steyerl
• -The Book of Imaginary Beings: Jorge Luis Borges
• -Bunker Archeology: Paul Virilio
• -Theater, Garden, Bestiary: A materialist History of Exhibitions. Edited by: Tristan Garcia & Vincent Normand
• -My Cinema: Marguerite Duras
• -Radio Remediated: Sissako’s Life on Earth and Sembène’s Moolaadé: Marissa J. Moorman
• -Sub-Saharan African film production. Technological paternalism: Manthia Diawara
• -Dear Science and Other Stories: Katherine McKittrick
• -Meeting the Universe Halfway- Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning: Karen Barad
• -The Jazz of Physics- The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe: Stephon Alexander
• -Meridian Crossing Aesthetics: Jacques Derrida Interviews, 1974-1994
• -Tools for Conviviality: Ivan Illich
• -Sonic Meditations: Oliveros Pauline
• -Time Lost, Instantaneity and The Image: Dorothea E. Olkowski
• -Deleuze and the Limits of Mathematical Time: Dorothea Olkowski
• -Race, Rhetoric and Revision: June Jordan as Utopian Architect: Charles Davis

2024

• -Speed & Politics: Paul Virilio
• -The Problems of Modernity. Adorno & Benjamin: Edited by Andrew Benjamin
• -Bosses: Ghislaine Leung
• -Units of Measurement: Jackie Karuti
• -Politicization of Nature: Luxemburg, Kraus, Benjamin: Tom Vandeputte
• -Reinventing the Medium: Rosalind E. Krauss
• -Japan Video Topics: DVD list (1998-2017)
• -Fog, Froth and Foam: insubstantial Matters in Substantive Atmospheres: Esther Leslie
• -Life-Destroying Diagrams: Eugenie Brinkema
• -Imagination: Vilem Flusser
• -Instructional Cinema in Colonial Africa- An Historical Reappraisal: Dr. Femi Okiremuete Shaka
• -Ciné-chronotones: Decolonial Temporal Critique in Contemporary Moving Image Practice: KJ Abudu
• -Ousmane Sembene: The Aestheticization of Memory & history: Peter Mwaura Gachanja
• -Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen
• -ZOO, or the letter Z, just after Zionism: Malkit Shoshan
• -The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill: Tim Ingold
• -The Arachnean and Other Texts: Fernand Deligny
• -Harun Farocki- Soft Montages: edited by Yilmaz Dziewior
• –Pages 11: Stage so near so far: Concept & inititation by Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi
• -Togetherward: Christian Nyampeta
• -Xenogenesis: The Otolith Group
• -Ways of Worldmaking: Ben Rivers
• -Walls to talk to: Jewyo Rhii
• -Structural Film Anthology: Peter Gidal
• -Tell it to the Stones. Encounters with the films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
• -Raw Materials for the Imagination: Alexander Kluge
• -Inserts in Real Time: Dora Garcia, performance work 2000-2023
• -Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus: Jean-Louis Baudry and Alan Williams

2023

• -Axolotl: Julio Cortázar
• -Versus the Multinational Vampires. An Attainable Utopia: Julio Cortázar
• -Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• -Diego Garcia: Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams
• -The Last Whole Earth Catalog, January 1971: Rare print edition
• -Arte Povera: Germano Celant
• -Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926–1963: Samson Kaunga Ndanyi
• -Exhibiting the New Art: ‘Op Losse Schroeven & ‘When Attitudes Become Form’ 1969: Christian Rattemeyer & others
• -Slow & soft & righteous. Improvising at the end of the world (and how we make a new one): Sonia Louise Davis
• -Slide Show. Projected images in contemporary Art: Darsie Alexander. With essays by Charles Harrison & Robert Storr
• -How to imitate the sound of the shore using two hands and a carpet: Cevdet Erek
• -Wind Tunnel Bulletin no. 11 & 13: Research Focus in Transdisciplinarity at Zurich University of the Arts
• -Ordinary Notes: Christina Sharpe
• -The Mushroom at the End of the World: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
• -How to ‘correct’ Nostalgia: Danièle Huillet
• -Cinema, meteorology, and the erotics of weather: Emil Leth Meilvang
• -The Loop of Belatedness: Cinema After Film in the Contemporary Art Gallery: Thomas Elsaesser
• -Expanded Vision and Blended Mediums: Remembering the Art of Michael Snow: Lukas Brasiskis, eflux

2022

• -Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia: Jonathan Walley
• -The Skin of the Film. Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses: Laura Marks
• -The hills have ideologies: The fûkeiron tradition in Japanese landscape cinema: Conor Bateman
• -Memoria: Apichatpong Weerasethakul & team. The book features materials collected during the development, writing, pre-production & shoot of the film
• -Steve McQueen: Tate Modern in collaboration with Pirelli HangarBicocca
• -Black Chapel: Theaster Gates
• -Institute of Radical Imagination(IRI)
• -Working-class Cinema in the Age of Digital Capitalism: Massimiliano Mollona
• -A glossary for arts education: On the Home Workspace Program 2014–2015: Edited by Özge Ersoy
• -Publishing as Method: In Conversation with Özge Ersoy and Paul C. Fermin: IDEAS Journal
• –Jackie Karuti: Notes Movement Method
• -Tube Dust Drone: Brückenmusik 1995-2015
• -Sneak Review: Benjamin Patterson
• -Das Rheingold (a new attempt): A multi-media opera by Ben Patterson
• -I Will Draw a Map of What You Never See. Endeavours in Rhythmanalysis: SAVVY Books
• -Ultrasanity. On Madness, Sanitation, Anti-psychiatry and Resistance: SAVVY Books
• -The Russian Experiment in Art, 1863-1922: Camilla Gray
• -Would That I Might Reach Myself Before All Others: Barbara Casavecchia on Maria Lai
• -Ralph Lemon: Thomas J. Lax, MOMA
• -What the Fire Sees: A Divided Reader
• -Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: Olga Tokarczuk

2021

• -Orphans of politics: A conversation with Lea Melandri on dependency, autonomy, love: By Christina Chalmers
• -Silvano Agosti in conversation with Adelita Husni Bey
• -Breathing Out of School: Raw Académie. Edited by Koyo Kouoh
• -All Incomplete: Stefano Harney & Fred Moten
• -A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be: Kara Walker
• -“1990: L.A., ‘The Gold Field‘”: Felix Gonzalez-Torres
• -A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See: Tina M. Campt
• -Agnes Martin: Paintings and Drawings 1974-1990: Published by Museum Wiesbaden
• -Notes and Methods: Hilma Af Klint
• -Methods and Processes: Ben Patterson
• -Ben Patterson- Event Scores: Benedikt Stegmayer
• -Ben Patterson- In the State of Fluxus: Published by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
• -Benjamin Patterson- Living Fluxus: Published by Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
• -Fluxus Vivus: The Arts Club of Chicago
• -Cosmic shift: Russian contemporary art writing
• -The Domain of the Great Bear: Mel Bochner & Robert Smithson
• -Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia: Critical Texts of the 1960s: Produced by Collaborative Cataloging Japan
• -How Does The World Breathe Now? Film as witness, archive, and political tool: SAVVY Books
• -We Have Delivered Ourselves from the Tonal- Of, Towards, On, For Julius Eastman: SAVVY Books
• -An Apartment on Uranus. Chronicles of the Crossing: Paul B. Preciado
• -Museum, Urban Detritus & Pornography: Paul B. Preciado
• -Hauntology, Nostalgia & Lost Futures: Mark Fisher interviewed by Valerio Mannucci & Valerio Mattioli for Nero (2014)
• -Acid Communism (unfinished introduction): Mark Fisher
• -What are the politics of boredom? (ballard 2003 remix): k-punk 08.03.2005
• -Invisible Inventories. Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums: International Inventories Programme(IIP)
• -People Who Think Together Dance Together: A Manifesto: Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa
• -Antoni Tàpies. Updated reflections: Arnau Puig, Tàpies Today
• -Art Without Work & Work Without Art: Georgia Sagri
• -Motion Capture: Lucy Raven
• -Movement short stories: Jackie Karuti
• -The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom: Juhani Pallasmaa
• –My body doesn’t exist: Paul B. Preciado
• –Tidalectic Lectures: Kamau Brathwaite’s Prose/Poetry as Sound-Space: Anna Reckin
• -Book pull-out. Preliminary thoughts and constructions: Roseline Olang
• -Etching ingredients: Jackie Karuti
• –Cosmic Bulletin: Institute of the Cosmos
• -Matter of Record, 2010: Peterson Kamwathi
• -Gray Latitudes: Michelle Angwenyi
• -Behind the mirror: Jen Huxta
• -Life Notes. Personal writings by contemporary Black women: Patricia Bell-Scott
• -Slide Show. Projected images in contemporary Art: Darsie Alexander
• –International student handbook

2020

• -Clay Plates. Broken Records of Kiswahili Proverbs: Alexis Teyie
• -Condition Report III. On Art History in Africa: Raw Material Company
• -Looking Forward. Looking Black, 1999: Jo Anna Isaak
• -We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-1985. A Sourcebook
• -Down River Road (drr): Place & Ritual
• -If I Could Write This in Fire: Michelle Cliff
• -L’Internationale Online
• –Field Conditions: Stan Allen
• -Material Thought: Siah Armajani and the Half-Open Door: Simon Beeson
• –53 Acts of Living: Canisia Lubrin
• -Hapticity and Time. Notes on Fragile Architecture: Juhani Pallasmaa
• –In The Den of the Alchemist: Souleymane Bachir Diagne
• -Fate Work: A Conversation between Valentina Desideri and Stefano Harney
• –Semiotics of the Cod: João Pedro Vale & Nuno Alexandre Ferreira
• -Black Visual Frequency: A Glossary: Tina Campt
• –The university is dead; long live the university: Wandia Njoya
• -Public Sphere by Performance: Bojana Cvejić & Ana Vujanović
• -E-ducating the gaze: The idea of a poor pedagogy: Jan Masschelein
• -Beyond The River Yei. Life in the land where sleeping is a disease: Binyavanga Wainaina
• -The Re-Enchantment of Humanism: An Interview with Sylvia Wynter: David Scott
• –The Ignorant Dramaturg: Bojana Cvejić
• -Moving as Thing. Choreographic Critiques of the Object: André Lepecki
• -Sculpture in the Expanded Field: Rosalind Krauss
• –Thought is a Material: Talking with Mel Bochner about Space, Art, and Language: Alexander Kranjec
• -Black visuality and the practice of refusal: Tina Campt
• -Form & Object. A Treatise on Things: Tristan Garcia
• –De-Territorializing the Child: Towards a Theory of Affect in Educational Philosophy and Research: Marta Pires
• -Städelschule Lectures: 2019-1999
• -Duty Free Art. Art in the age of planetary civil war: Hito Steyerl
• –Cinephilia and Monstrosity: The Problem of Cinema in Deleuze’s Cinema Books: Claire Perkins
• -The House of Hunger: Dambudzo Marechera
• -En atendant & Cesena: A Choreographer’s Score: Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker & Bojana Cvejić
• -Festac ’77: Chimurenga
• -Maps And Wander Lines: Fernand Deligny
• -(panic) shopping list(s)
• -No Roses from My Mouth: Poems from Prison: Dr. Stella Nyanzi
• –Listening to Images: Tina M. Campt
• -In the Wake: On Blackness and Being: Christina Sharpe
• -Choreographing Problems: Expressive Concepts in European Contemporary Dance and Performance: Bojana Cvejić
• –Towards a Poetics of Imagination. On Mette Edvardsen’s poetry and its penchant to imagine a clandestine side to things: Bojana Cvejić
• -Walenisi: Katama Mkangi
• -The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
• -Deutscher Pavillon 2013, La Biennale di Venezia: Ai Weiwei, Romuald Karmakar, Santu Mofokeng, Dayanita Singh
• -The Wretched of the Earth: Frantz Fanon
• –ArtAsiaPacific
• –Monoskop

2019

• -Shin Egashira: Before Object, After Image. 1996 – 2006 Koshirakura Landscape
• -Kodwo Eshun: More Brilliant than the Sun; Adventures in Sonic Fiction
• -Fernand Deligny: Maps & Wander Lines
• -Sophie Podolski: The country where everything is permitted
• -Grace Ndiritu: Institutional Critique: Racism & Spiritual Practice in the Art World, 2019
• -Tim Ingold: Lines-a Brief History, The Life of Lines, Being Alive, Making
• -IKON: second series #1. Fall/Winter 1982-83
• -The Sarai Reader book series
• -The Adventures of Thiga: C.M Mureithi
• -K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
• -Capitalist Realism: Mark Fisher
• -The Essential Writings of Marcel Duchamp: Edited by Michel Sanouillet & Elmer Peterson
• -Sinazo Chiya: 9 More Weeks
• –eflux: Anton Vidokle and Hito Steyerl- Cosmic Catwalk and the Production of Time
• -Another Country: James Baldwin
• –eflux: Raqs Media Collective- Stammer, Mumble, Sweat, Scrawl, and Tic
• -Visual Culture: the reader. Edited by Jessica Evans & Stuart Hall
• –Ibraaz: Contemporary Visual Culture in North Africa & The Middle East
• –KADIST: A Distinct Itinerary in. Space and. Time.
• -Ngũgĩ wa Mirii: On Literacy Content, 1979
• -James Muriuki & Syowia Kyambi: Layers
• -Chimurenganyana: When you kill us we Rule! Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s last interview. By Keziah Jones
• -Monsieur Antipyrine’s Manifesto: Tristan Tzara
• -Texte Zur Kunst: Globalisms
• -Ashraf Jamal: In The World. Essays on Contemporary South African Art
• -Àsìkò: residency notes
• -Co.@rtnews
• -Jackie Karuti: The Address (Book)
• -Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2018 catalog: Possibilities for a Non-alienated Life
• -Jackie Karuti responding to Wolfang Tillmans’ work: What else can a photograph be?
• –Kwani? journal: Books 1-8

2018

• -Felwine Sarr & Bénédicte Savoy: The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics
• -Jonathan Gathaara Sölanke Fraser: FOSSILS (or the movement of an image across a field of memory)
• -Michelle Angwenyi: BIRD. an alternative thesis
• -Neo Sinoxolo Musangi: Homing with My Mother / How Women in My Family Married Women
• –African Art Since 1992: A Timeline of Momentous Events in And Around The Continent
• -Soul of a Nation. Art in the Age of Black Power: Edited by Mark Godfrey & Zoé Whitley
• -Museum fur Volkerkunde, Frankfurt-Signs: Art from East Africa 1974 – 1989
• -Dak’Art Biennale 2018 Catalog
• -The Invention of Zimbabwe: The Chronic, Chimurenga-April, 2018
• -XiBARUU TEERE YI(‘Chronic Books’ in Wolof): What can African Writers Learn from Cheikh Anta Diop?
• -A Path Not Taken: The Story of Joseph Murumbi. Africa’s Greatest Private Cultural Collector and Kenya’s Second Vice-president. Anne Thurston
• -9 Weeks: Hansi Momodu-Gordon
• -African Sexualities: Sylvia Tamale
• -Purple: John Akomfrah
• -documenta 14: Daybook & Reader
• -SOUTH as a state of mind
• -Àsìkò: on the future of artistic and curatorial pedagogies in Africa
• -Curriculum of Connections. Focus: Education- Contemporary &: Special documenta 14 edition
• -Condition Report: symposium on building Art institutions in Africa. Edited by Koyo Kouoh
• –Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh