Contact information
Name:
Nandini Sikand
Phone:
610-330-3049
Email:
sikandn@lafayette.edu
When:
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Where:
Landis Cinema - Buck Hall - 219 N. 3rd Street
Presenter:
Nandini Sikand & Drew Swedberg
Price:
Free
It’s a long way from Amphioxus (Kamal Aljafari)
An old woman leans to the young man with the yellow book sitting next to her and asks, “What are they distributing here?” “Numbers”, he replies. In Berlin’s waiting rooms, where metal and wooden seats are nailed to the ground, people arrive after emerging from the seas. Here they wait. Kamal Aljafari’s new short film once again collapses time, questioning the meaning of life in a system in which humanity is reduced to a number and the value of one’s future is measured by applications within grey hallways. 16 minutes
Recollection (Kamal Aljafari)
The image grows larger and before us a face emerges that was hidden. We see it now, pixeled. But pixels don’t matter as they are not an aesthetic or technical matter, but a political matter. In “Recollection,” Kamal Aljafari’s latest film, there’s a found footage work. Aljafari turns invisible to visible making disappear what used to be the protagonist. 70 minutes
Sponsored by:
Film and Media Studies