We’re Caught in a Trap, I Can’t Walk Out, Because I Love You Too Much Baby Curated by Peter Taylor

Weaving freely in and around ghostly histories, myth, cataclysm, expectation and acceptance are two KinoKino film programmes jammed full of artists’ film, radical in-between-ness and all lovingly curated by Peter Taylor.

It doesn’t take too much a leap of imagination to realize the entrapping lure of progress - its ratcheting up of moral and material expectations of greatness that are impossibly unsustainable.  Yet we’re still enthralled by this myth, we’re still mostly committed to the propping up of its paradigms.

Confronted however with the merciless weight of history and the dust and bones upon which our doomed empires of unceasing progress are constructed, might it be possible instead, to embrace the certainty of uncertainty and to live lives without consolation?  Might it be possible to create acceptable myths for ourselves - fictions which aren’t illusory?  The poet, Wallace Stevens suggested this, ‘The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and to believe in it willingly’. externe link, Vimeo

tickets

DEAF CINEMA
Friday 23 May
19:00 - 20:30
Het Nieuwe Instituut Auditorium
€ 5 / Tickets

DEAF CINEMA
Saturday 24 May
19:00 - 20:30        
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Auditorium  
€ 5 / Tickets