The viewing room

2024

 

 

 

The Journey of the Hyena: Program description | Screening schedule | References

 

 

  • -De Humani Corporis Fabrica, 2022: dir. Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
  • -Christian Nyampeta and Isaie Nzeyimana, “The Rest”, 2015: dir. Christian Nyampeta (extract from ongoing conversations with philosophers)
  • -We Began by Measuring Distance, 2009: dir. Basma Alsharif
  • -Amor Rojo, 2023: dir. Dora García
  • -Segunda Vez, 2018: dir. Dora García
  • -Brutalitaet in Stein (Brutality in stone), 1961: dir. Alexander Kluge
  • -I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, 2019: dir. Radu Jude
  • -Strike, 1925: dir. Sergei Eisenstein
  • -La Région Centrale, 1971: dir. Michael Snow
  • -The Deviant Majority (from Basaglia to Brazil), 2010: dir. Dora Garcia
  • -Berlin Horse, 1970: dir. Malcolm Le Grice
  • -The Man with a Movie Camera, 1973: dir. David Crosswaite
  • -Leviathan, 2012, dir. Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
  • -Leviathan, 2014: dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev

 

2023

 

  • -Akka on my Mind, 2018: dir. Mahmoud El-Beshtawi
  • -The House is Black, 1962: dir. Forugh Farrokhzad
  • -Anselm, 2023: dir. Wim Wenders
  • -The First Year, 1972: dir. Patricio Guzmán
  • -Feed me. Cheat me. Eat me: Exhibition & films by Janis Rafa | Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam
  • -This will not end well: Exhibition & films by Nan Goldin | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • -The Ecstatic Truth: Exhibition & films by Werner Herzog | Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam
  • -Kala azar, 2020: dir: Janis Rafa
  • -Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, 2021: dir: Radu Jude
  • -Artis: The Amsterdam Zoo: Amsterdam
  • -Werckmeister Harmonies, 2000: dir: Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky
  • -Il buco, 2022: dir: Michelangelo Frammartino
  • -Fade to Black, 1990: dir: Tony Cokes
  • -The Shout, 1978: dir: Jerzy Skolimowski
  • -Salon dynamics for hijab wearing clients
  • -Polar bear, hippo with elephant legs & other mutant welded animals on Ngong road
  • -The Orb: Eye ball scanning queues at the mall
  • -Wasp, 2003: dir: Andrea Arnold
  • -Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel, 1968: dir. Alexander Kluge
  • -Alcarràs, 2022: dir: Carla Simón Pipó
  • -The Eight Mountains, 2022: dir: Felix Van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch
  • -Thief, 1981: dir: Michael Mann
  • -Amarcord, 1973: dir: Federico Fellini
  • -Tampopo, 1985: dir: Juzo Itami
  • -Pastoral: To Die in the Country, 1974: dir: Shūji Terayama
  • -Fish Tank, 2009: dir: Andrea Arnold
  • -Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, 2011: dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • -Happy As Lazzaro, 2018: dir: Alice Rohrwacher
  • –Next Floor, 2008: dir: Denis Villeneuve
  • -All That Breathes, 2022: dir: Shaunak Sen

 

 

Videos featured in the exhibition Body Machine Location at Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland

  • -Pyramid structure + Weather Instrument, shadow projection, 2023
  • -Expressway | HD video, color, + Live feed camera & 60ft maqueta, 2023
  • -Supersonic | HD video, color, 2023
  • -Beluga | HD video, b/w, 2023
  • -Vertigo | HD video, color, 2023
  • -Site Visit I & II | HD video, color, 2023
  • -Ngatataek River | HD video, color, 2022
  • -Parliament/Murder | 8 channel HD video, color, 2019
  • -Autopsy, | HD video, color, 2018

 

 

Experimental Film Workshop

For this edition of the Artists’ cinema program the focus shifts towards making and what it means to construct an image. An experimental & improvised camera-less approach will form the basis of this workshop by repurposing old film strips & tinkering with props, instruments & electronic sound. Elements of this will unfold as a live ephemeral gesture giving it numerous glances & angles of view from the participants while others will be recorded, filmed, screened and performed. This foregrounds editing as a process in itself, which is also key in experimental filmmaking. The workshop will be preceded by a re-staging/screening of Ein Bild (An Image) by the late German filmmaker, Harun Farocki.

 

Program 2023

 

VIDEO | Artists’ cinema, video and experimental film Workshop | Nairobi, July 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2022

Artists’ cinema, video and experimental film program: 2022

 

 

 

  • -The Nagoya Aquarium: Nagoya, Japan
  • -The Metamorphosis of Birds, 2020: dir. Catarina Vasconcelos
  • -The Owl’s Legacy, 1989: dir. Chris Marker
  • -Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16, 2003
  • -Mann & Frau & Animal, 1973: dir. Valie Export
  • -Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda, 2017: dir. Stephen Nomura Schible
  • -Chambre 666, 1982: dir. Wim Wenders
  • -AI robot Ai-Da gives evidence to a House of Lords inquiry
  • -71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance, 1996: dir. Michael Haneke
  • -Ghost in the Shell, 1995: dir. Mamoru Oshii
  • -NASA Artemis 1 moon launch (attempts)
  • -Perfect Blue, 1997: dir. Satoshi Kon
  • -The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years without Images, 2011: dir. Eric Baudelaire
  • -Notes for a Film in India, 1968: dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • -Crash, 1996: dir. David Cronenburg
  • -The Taste of Tea, 2004: dir. Katsuhito Ishii‎
  • –eflux live: Towards Non-Anthropocentric Moving Images: Exemplars of a Counter-History. A lecture by Jonathan Walley
  • -Cobra Mist, 2009: dir. Emily Richardson
  • –Filming Revolution: A Meta-Documentary about Filmmaking in Egypt since the revolution: Alisa Lebow
  • -Meshes of the Afternoon, 1943: dir. Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid
  • -Aldona, 2013: dir. Emilija Škarnulytė
  • -Scenes from a Sketchbook, 2016: dir. Amit Dutta
  • -Kramasha (To Be Continued), 2007: dir. Amit Dutta
  • –Animism: Episode 1: A Report on Migrating Souls in Museums and Moving Pictures
  • -Sicilia!, 1998 dir. Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
  • -Knife Sharpener in Ngong town
  • -Memoria, 2021: dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • -Blue, 1993: dir. Derek Jarman
  • -Björk talking about her TV

2021

  • -James Webb Space Telescope Launch: 25.12.21
  • -A Visitor to a Museum, 1989: Konstantine Lopushansky
  • -Seismic-like Event, 2021: Jackie Karuti
  • -Volcano: Film + online polyphonic orchestration. Convened by Discursive Justice Ensemble
  • -Demolition of the Salzbachtal Bridge in Wiesbaden: 06.11.21
  • –Lee Ufan installing Relatum (Formerly Phenomena and Perception B, 1968/2011)
  • -Subversive Film: Screenings at PAF’s spring meeting
  • -How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?, 2010: Ralph Lemon
  • -Scuola senza fine (School Without End), 1983: Adriana Monti
  • -D’amore si vive (We Live of Love), 1983: Silvano Agosti
  • -Drawings: Agnes Martin, On a Clear Day, 1973: Museum Wiesbaden Collection
  • -Ben Patterson: Paper Music [excerpt]: FLUXUS Classics’92 Malmö , Sweden, 1992
  • -Pressure, 1976: Horace Ové
  • -Baldwin’s N*****, 1969: Horace Ové
  • -Ein Bild (An Image), 1983: Harun Farocki
  • -Impressions for a Light and Sound Machine, 2017: Colectivo Los Ingrávidos
  • -Latin American Art Symposium: Cecilia Vicuña, an artist interview
  • -Javelin, 2021: Jackie Karuti
  • -Parliament, 2021: Jackie Karuti
  • -Measures of Distance, 1988: Mona Hatoum
  • -The Thief, 1998: Francis Alÿs
  • -Paul B. Preciado in conversation with Jack Halberstam: The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (ICA)
  • -Remembering Agnes Denes’s “Wheatfield” | THE SHED
  • -Respiro, 2002: dir. Emanuele Crialese
  • -T2 Trainspotting- Choose Life speech
  • –Annea Lockwood/A Film About Listening: dir. Sam Green
  • -The Radiant, 2012: The Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar & Kodwo Eshun)
  • -Video 50, 1978: Robert Wilson
  • -The Tulse Luper Suitcases Part I- The Moab Story: Peter Greenaway
  • -Shepherd, sheep & 3-legged goat
  • –Ulysse, 1982: dir. Agnès Varda
  • -Clock Shower, 1974: Gordon Matta-Clark
  • -Evaporating river: Ngatataek, Kajiado
  • -M, 1978: dir. Fritz Lang
  • -Jubilee, 1978: dir. Derek Jarman
  • -Teorema, 1968: dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • -Flaming Creatures, 1963: Jack Smith
  • -Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, 1975: dir. Chantal Akerman
  • -Jules & Jim, 1962: dir. François Truffaut
  • -Fitzcarraldo, 1982: dir. Werner Herzog
  • -Bitter Lake, 2015: dir. Adam Curtis
  • -The Century of the Self, 2002: dir. Adam Curtis
  • -Critique de la séparation, 1961: Guy Debord
  • -La Société du Spectacle, 1967: Guy Debord
  • -Red Hot Riding Hood, 1943: dir. Tex Avery
  • -Blitz Wolf, 1942: dir. Tex Avery
  • -Godard in America, 1970: dir. Ralph Thanhauser
  • -The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun, 1999: dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
  • -The Dreamers, 2003: dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
  • -Journeys From Berlin-1971, 1980: dir. Yvonne Rainer

2020

  • -15:35, 23rd December: Owl visit
  • -Cloud, crow, sheep, flag & ball movements
  • –Àsìkò: The Pan-African Alternative Art School
  • -Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint: dir. Halina Dyrschka
  • –Compost Archive: A video by Filipa César and Louis Henderson about Guinea-Bissau’s film archives
  • -Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva: 4 Waters-Deep Implicancy
  • –Material Ecology: Live Q&A with Paola Antonelli and Neri Oxman
  • –Ruth Wilson Gilmore & Mariame Kaba in Conversation
  • -The Woman by the Window: Coco Fusco
  • –Flotsam Jetsam: David Kelley and Patty Chang
  • -Richard Avedon, James Baldwin: Nothing Personal
  • –Immortality for All: A film trilogy on Russian Cosmism: Anton Vidokle
  • -Soshite Chichi ni Naru (Like Father, Like Son): dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • -Time. Space. Existence: Balkrishna Doshi 
  • -Landless (Chão): dir. Camila Freitas
  • -The Africa Institute, Talk: Jihan El-Tahri
  • -Cuba, an African Odyssey: dir. Jihan El-Tahri
  • -Europa ’51: dir. Roberto Rossellini
  • -Meet the Curator: Shubigi Rao With Kochi Biennale Foundation
  • -An Opera of the World: dir. Manthia Diawara
  • –The Giverny Document: dir. Ja’Tovia Gary
  • -Millennium Actress: dir. Satoshi Kon
  • -Minor Matter: Ligia Lewis
  • -John Akomfrah in conversation with Tina Campt, Ekow Eshun & Saidiya Hartman
  • -Self Unfinished (1998): Xavier Le Roy
  • -Kiki’s Delivery Service: dir. Hayao Miyazaki
  • –Okwui Okpokwasili
  • –Poor People’s TV Room: Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born
  • -La Siesta: dir. Federico Luis Tachella
  • -Los Gatos: dir. Alejandro Ríos
  • –24 Frames Per Century: dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari
  • -The Epic of Everest, 1924: dir. Captain John Noel
  • -Shiraz: A Romance of India, 1928: dir. Franz Osten
  • -Our Little Sister: dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • -Love is the Message, the Message is Death: Arthur Jafa 
  • -Audre Lorde- The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992: dir. Dagmar Schultz
  • -Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore: An Antipode Foundation film
  • -Grey Matter (Matière Grise): dir. Kivu Ruhorahoza
  • -Fúria: Lia Rodrigues
  • -Yugoslavia- How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body: dir. Marta Popivoda
  • –Seaside library with board-marked concrete walls
  • -Son of Gone Fishin’: Trisha Brown
  • -One Flat Thing: William Forsythe
  • -Hyenas- dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
  • -The Stuart Hall Project- dir. John Akomfrah
  • -The Last Angel of History- dir. John Akomfrah
  • –Pythagorean home amidst olive grove
  • -Félicité- dir. Alain Gomis
  • -Black Panthers- dir. Agnès Varda
  • -Muhammad Ali, The Greatest- dir. William Klein
  • -Funk lessons: Adrian Piper
  • –How Clouds are Formed: Turbulence: Jackie Karuti

2019

2018

  • –The Planets- chapter32: Jackie Karuti
  • -Göran Olsson: Concerning Violence
  • -Chris Marker: Sans Soleil
  • -Manifesto: Julian Rosefeldt
  • -Life of Imitation: Ming Wong
  • –Rebirth is Necessary: Jenn Nkiru
  • -Georges Méliès
  • -24 Frames: Abbas Kiarostami
  • -Medicine for Melancholy: Barry Jenkins
  • -Prison Images: Harun Farocki
  • –More Sweetly Play The Dance: William Kentridge
  • -Moving text at airports & supermarket check-out counters
  • -Out Film Festival Nairobi- 2018 film selections