What the Cameras Saw and Remembered

March 16, 2024 - March 17, 2024
Capitol Cinema, Melbourne

Two films by CAMP
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar (The Neighbour before the House)
From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

We invite you to a rare opportunity to watch two acclaimed films by Mumbai based artist group, CAMP.

CAMP’s film works employ distinct video materials and methods to explore entanglements between medium, message and the politics of looking. In From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, (2013) mobile phone videos filmed by sea-farers in the Western Indian Ocean across many years provide a rare glimpse into the translocal, yet intimate worlds of oceanic trade and media flows. In The Neighbour Before the House, (2009-11) eight Palestinian families in Jerusalem film their neighbourhoods using CCTV cameras mounted on their homes; returning the gaze of surveillance and re-orienting both operational images and subject-positions of citizens.

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