Screening on
Sun 23 March 15:00
at BLOC cinema
Digital Trespasses: screening + talk Guest curated by Jjambbong
In the age of platformisation, how might we examine the ideologies behind the services that mediate our contact with the world?
Digital Trespasses is an inquiry into the ways in which the digital image has been wielded by nation-states as a means of control. By combining film screenings with discussion, we invite you to engage with cinema that challenges this hegemony with counter-technologies, where Pokemon Go provides a glimpse into restricted military sites, and 3D reconstructions of crime scenes are used as court evidence.
Screening + talk runtime: 95min
Graeae: A Stationed Idea 그라이아이: 주둔하는 신
Dir. Jeong Yeoreum | 33 min | 2020
An essayistic excavation of a US military base in Seoul using Pokémon Go, mapping software, and YouTube videos. Blending meticulous research with poetic reflection, the film investigates the ways in which perception and memories are restructured by digital interfaces.
Your father was born 100 years old, and so was the Nakba
أبوكي خلق عمره ١٠٠ سنة، زي النكبة
Dir. Razan AlSalah | 7 min | 2018
A grandmother returns to her hometown Haifa through Google Streetview, the only way Palestinian refugees can see Palestine. The film is a mournful yet incisive indictment of settler colonialism and displacement.
Abstract
Dir. Hito Steyerl | 7 min | 2012
The grammar of cinema follows the grammar of battle,” declares the opening title cards. A pithy film by the renowned writer-filmmaker Hito Steyerl, the film follows a personal tragedy while delivering a damning conviction between image culture and the military-industrial complex.
Killing in Umm Al-Hiran
Dir. Forensic Architecture | 30 min | 2018
Two people were killed after a night raid in the Bedouin village of Umm Al-Hiran in January 2017: a Palestinian man and an Israeli policeman. The official narrative was that of a terrorist attack, but FA disputes this claim through 3D mapping, eye witness accounts, and re-enactments.
Event presented by Atlas Cinema x Sine Screen and guest curated by Jjambbong
About Jjambbong film club
Jjambbong is a pop-up community cinema dedicated to showcasing all kinds of Asian cinema. Jjambbong is a Korean-Chinese seafood soup, as well as a slang term in Korean for a mix of everything, which is reflective of our hybrid programming. Through discussion, food, and fansubbing, we hope to open up a space for inter-diaspora solidarity and critical cinephilia.
Follow Jjambbong at @jjambbongfilm
Curators
Emily Jisoo Bowles is a British-Korean writer, translator, and film programmer based in London. They work with Queer East Festival as a film programme assistant. They are interested in alternative forms of film exhibition and how cinema can be used as a tool for political change.
Theo Du is a writer and film critic from Hong Kong based in Amsterdam. He holds a Masters in Film Studies from the University of Amsterdam. His interests lie in experimental art of all disciplines, be it visual, literary, or cinematic. Find more of his work here.