An Exercise in Assembling
Ciné Lecture by
Practiced as a series of exercises in examining assembling as a methodology for resistance, “An Exercise in Assembling” is an ongoing study of perpetual recurrences: political, bodily, archival and filmic recurrence of our actualities, past and present. Using film programming as a way of engaging with archival structures and militant film histories, the work is constructed in four chapters of extracted scenes from films made within different cine and revolutionary geographies including Palestine, Cuba, Western Sahara, Guinea Bissau, and France among others.
Pertaining to the structure of "An Exercise in Assembling” Subversive Film will speak along some of the film fragments and expand on some of the aspects of this work, in conversation with Bojana Cvejić.
• Subversive Film is a cinema research and production collective that aims to cast new light upon historical works related to Palestine and the region, to engender support for film preservation, and to investigate archival practices. Their long-term and ongoing projects explore this cine-historic field including digitally reissuing previously overlooked films, curating rare film screening cycles, subtitling rediscovered films, producing publications, and devising other forms of interventions. Formed in 2011, Subversive Film is based between Brussels and Ramallah.
• Bojana Cvejić is author of several books, notably Choreographing Problems (2015) and Toward a Transindividual Self (co-written with Ana Vujanović 2022). As a practicing dramaturg, performer or director, she has co-created many performances that have extensively toured internationally. Bojana has been active in the self-organization of two collective platforms for experimental artistic production, critical theory and self-education in Europe and former Yugoslavia (Performing Arts Forum, Saint-Erme since 2005; TkH/Walking Theory 2001-17), which have informed her research in social choreography, transindividuality, and anti-fascist political solidarity. Since 2017, she is Professor at Oslo National Academy of Arts.
