VIA DOLOROSA und WHO IS AFRAID OF IDEOLOGY, PART 1 (Terms and Conditions #01)

In the organizer's words:

On September 23 and 24, the Harun Farocki Institute presents a two-part film program as part of the research project Terms and Conditions: The Legal Form of Images, which is dedicated to the legal matrix of artistic practice and cultural production. The focus is on feminist film practices that criticize violence against marginalized subjects and develop formal, narrative strategies to avoid new mechanisms of oppression.

Program

Tue 24.9., 20h, guests: Oraib Toukan and Marwa Arsanios, moderated by Agata Lisiak and Clio Nicastro
VIA DOLOROSA Oraib Toukan Palestine, Jordan 2021 engl. and arab. OmeU 21'
WHO IS AFRAID OF IDEOLOGY, PART 1 Marwa Arsanios Iraq, Kurdistan, Lebanon 2017 arab. and kurd. OmeU 23'
How can images protect their subjects while expanding and subverting the visual form by going beyond common means such as blurring and fabricated evidence? How can legal uncertainty and state violence be challenged as conditions for the production and distribution of images? We will approach these complex questions using Oraib Toukan's VIA DOLOROSA and Marwa Arsanios' WHO IS AFRAID OF IDEOLOGY, PART 1. Based on Toukan's concept of the "cruel image", we will discuss how both films acknowledge the inherent violence of the camera, including its colonial roots, and creatively deal with the limits of visual representation.