Film and Video

Documenting Migration in Contemporary Art: Bouchra Khalili’s The Mapping Journey Project

How to raise awareness of the most recent refugee crisis in the Mediterranean in a way that does not spectacularize human suffering? Beginning with Bouchra Khalili’sThe Mapping Journey Project, this essay addresses how the present crisis has manifested as image and has made its way, across a variety of methodological and ethical approaches, into works of…

Hacer dudar de la supuesta naturaleza de las cosas: entrevista a Lucrecia Martel

En mayo de 2019 la cineasta argentina Lucrecia Martel dio una charla en el MoMA, invitada por el Instituto Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Cisneros. Ya el primer largometraje de Martel, La ciénaga (2001), llamó la atención por la contundencia de sus imágenes, la puesta en tensión con el sonido, la exposición y espacios de quiebre en las relaciones de poder partiendo del núcleo familiar, y una sensorialidad extrema y extrañada. La idea de esta entrevista es dejar una marca escrita de su paso por el MoMA, donde habló sobre un esquema temporal alternativo basado en el sonido.

To Cast Doubt on the Assumed Nature of Things: An Interview with Lucrecia Martel

In May 2019, the Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel was invited by the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Institute to give a lecture at MoMA. Martel’s first feature film, La ciénaga (2001), attracted much attention because of the tension between its powerful imagery and soundscape, its exploration of power relations as rooted in the family, and an extreme and estranged sensorial quality. The idea of this interview is to leave a written trace of her visit to MoMA, where she spoke about an alternative, sound-based understanding of time.