Pirate Cinema 5

 

    Twentieth Century Toxicity
   Sunday, February 1
      7 pm - 10 pm
     CAMP rooftop.

7: 00 pm
Safe
Todd Haynes
USA 1995 1 h 59 m
http://0xdb.org/0114323

9: 00 pm
The River
Tsai Ming-Liang
Taiwan 1997 1 h 55 m
http://0xdb.org/0119263


Take-Aways

Poison
Todd Haynes
USA 1991. 1h 25m

The Hole
Tsai Ming-liang
Taiwan, France 1998.  1h 35m



Two films about the interior and exterior of affliction. The hero gets it from playing dead in a river, the heroine from being "allergic to the 20th century".

Keywords: hermeticism, allergy, AIDS metaphor, bodies, bent neck, leaking water in father's room, icy detachment, nosebleed,  pine-scented, steam, Mcdonalds, black instead of teal, being held by the pillion-rider, slowly revealed that this is a family, could be a gay film.

Pirate Cinema Bombay

Pirate Cinema from Berlin, who we are working with on the video archive http://pad.ma, present a series of weekly (Sunday) events in the Pirate Cinema tradition, on films and footage.



Sydney Biennale 2026

Coming soon…

Night Sweats, and Menggodam

Saturday, 6 to 8 pm.
A conversation with scholar Irina Aristarkhova and theorist/ curator Gunalan Nadarajan about their recent projects.

Irina presents ideas from an upcoming co-authored book on cyberfeminism, Night Sweats: Cyberfeminist Practices, out this year.

Guna will speak about a recent exhibition series across South East Asia, the first of which is named Menggodam.

Commemorating a Revolution yet to come,

Country of the Sea as part of revolutionary remembrance / क्रांती स्मरण

Gwangju Biennale 2026

CAMP took part in the 16th Gwangju Biennale Pre-Programme events.

screenings and masterclass with CAMP

Doc’s Kingdom

International Seminar on Documentary Film
“A collective / inarticulate harmony.”

Reading Listening Seeing - Bombay Tilts Down

A video performance tour of the work in three-acts with Shaina and Ashok.
Choreographies of the Everyday and Tokyo Art Week

Singapore Biennale

Metabolic Container

Starting from 400 boxes of goods, part of a weekly, diasporic "trade" (one-way) between Batam in Indonesia, and Singapore. In which the container and its boxes are not just a carrier, but a medium.

Structural Film After Globalisation

featuring CCTV Social and Pad.ma playlists.

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