From inscribing new meaning onto found footage to inciting ideas through juxtaposing past and present, and as a potent catalyst for exploring personal history, these three short films move through the many ways that documentary can harness the power of archive.
Using different forms of archival material, these thought-provoking films deepen our understanding of human stories, and unravel the nuanced notion of the archive itself.
Programme details
No se ve desde acá (You Can’t See It From Here) | USA, Columbia | 19 mins | 2024 | dir. Enrique Pedráza-Botero
Using archive and spatial exploration of Miami as a point of departure, this film confronts us with contrasting experiences of migration.
Milk | UK | 25 mins | 2024 | dir. Miranda Stern
While contemplating having a child, Miranda Stern starts to open boxes containing the personal effects of her mother, whom she never knew. Through a moving introspective journey into the past and the future, the filmmaker creates a cinematic work around maternity, loss and addiction, focused on life and healing
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing | UK | 17 mins | 2024 | dir. Theo Panagopoulos
When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wild flowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender film essay questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and the land.
The film No se ve desde acá (You Can’t See It From Here) contains flickering or flashing lights that may affect those with photosensitive epilepsy.
The programme includes a Q&A with the filmmakers, recorded live at Bertha DocHouse on Wednesday 3 September.
This screening has been made accessible for free but if you would like to support the filmmakers please donate while booking your ticket and 100% of the income will be given to the filmmakers.
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