Far from Philadelphia

Five narratives developed in the class "Footage Films", that re-assemble archives of campus protest, Penn Museum collections, university weapons development projects, the Schuylkill river, a utopia called Shangri-La, and their intersections across time and place.

*Recalling Far From Vietnam, collectively-made essay film from 1967.

Video and sonic works with live elements. 90 mins including Q and A.

by Alvin Luong, Ambika Trasi, Dylan Li, Nipun Kottage, Nora Wang. with 2024 CEE Fellows, CAMP

In 1967, a group of filmmakers including Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Agnes Varda and Jean-Luc Godard made an essay film mostly from collected materials, titled Far From Vietnam. In it, they articulated the stakes for humanity, and their own stakes, at a distance, in the war in Vietnam. Stakes that are in Gaza today, and still in Vietnam.

This title recalls war at a distance, but also solidarity. We invert this collective gaze towards Penn and Philly institutions, movements, geographies, and our cohort's own recent experiences. We asked how local archives of protest, museum collections from far or near places, university histories of its own participation in past wars, the mapping and overflowing of the Schuylkill river, the deployment in literature, cinema and real estate of a place and utopia called Shangri-La, intersect with and effect other places and contexts.

These are projects of relinking, rebuilding and "rear-guard" art, by an international and transdisciplinary group from a university, and a re-oriented Philadelphia, where such questions uniquely intersect. The evening marks the end of a semester with CEE Fellows CAMP (Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran), and their course: Footage Films, or Narrating a Dataset: 100 days without our own images.

Footage Films, Or Narrating a Dataset

with Visiting Scholars CAMP
(Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran)
We begin this fall semester's film class with a moratorium on audio-video capture.
100 days without your own images:)



CAMP Study Day

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CAMP Study Day, brings together leading scholars of media, law, cinema, and visual art on the occasion CAMP's exhibition Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP. With Erika Balsom, Lawrence Liang, Debashree Mukherjee, Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Laura U. Marks.

Reading Listening Seeing, Bombay Tilts Down

A tour of the work with CAMP in three acts.

An Internet Movie about Housing in Bombay/Mumbai

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Light Industry
7:00 pm
The first and last sections from a 6-hour-long video essay, presented live by CAMP.

TIME FLICKERS

Priyank Gothwal presents a series of 8 works as a physical exhibition and accompanying lecture-performance, on the experiences and abstractions of time.

first draft gathering

"film objects"
A gathering organised by the Delhi based artist group first draft.
Saturday from 5 pm.

Video After Video : The Critical Media of CAMP

Organised by Stuart Comer and Rattanamol Singh Johal.

Phantas.ma Season - II

Phantas.ma is running a season dedicated to CAMP as part of Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP at MoMA.
A video a day, on the site.
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The (Reshuffled) Year of the Everlasting Storm

Sunday, 7:00 pm
100 mins
Pandemic shorts by Panahi, Poitras, Apichatpong, Weiwei, and others.

A Terrible Beauty

by Iram Ghufran
50 mins, 2023
7:00 pm

Introduction and post-screening discussion with Iram Ghufran.
A science-fiction fable set in the "miracle city" of Yiwu, in one of the world's largest wholesale markets for small commodities.

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