Socialist Memory: Documentary Approaches in Contemporary Art

Cornerhouse Manchester
6-8pm Tuesday 13 March 2007

The Socialist Memory film screening features film and video works dealing with the memory of the communist past in Eastern Europe. The selected films highlight the variety of approaches within contemporary art to the use of documentary material and techniques. This screening of five short films set in Albania, Czech Republic, Lithuania and Croatia, will be introduced by the curators Maja and Reuben Fowkes www.translocal.org

Anri Sala ( Albania ) Intervista, 1998 (25 min)
In this film, artist Anri Sala confronts his mother with her past as a communist activist.

Zbynek Baladran (Czech Republic) Working Process, 2004 (9 min)
An eclectic mix of footage from public and private archives.

Arturas Raila (Lithuania), The Girl is Innocent, 1999 (17 min)
The candid footage capturing entrenched anti-Western undercurrents.

Goran Devi* (Croatia), Imported Crows (2004) (22 min)
A metaphorical image of a troubled society where one identity is violently replaced by another.

Johanna Billing (Sweden) Magical World (2005) (6.12 min)
Shot in a cultural centre, the work provides a glimpse of a country in transformation.

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Dr Reuben Fowkes
Research Fellow MIRIAD
(Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design),

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