Another Screen/Cosmic Reductions presents two film programmes on hands, eating and food: ‘Eating / The Other’ (now extended to Wednesday 14 April) and ‘Hands Tied’ (ends on Friday 16). The discussions, subtitles and captions have been translated into a number of languages, including English, French, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish. Take your visit here.
‘EATING / THE OTHER’
Six films about food and eating in relation to ritual, modernity, censorship and national myths, including Melons (Patty Chang, USA, 1998), The Sweet Number: An Experience of Consumption (VALIE EXPORT, Austria, 1968), Popsicles (Gloria Camiruaga, Chile/USA, 1982/4), Rat Life and Diet in North America (Joyce Wieland, Canada, 1968), The Sandwich (Ateyyat El Abnoudy, Egypt, 1975) and Fake Fruit Factory (Chick Strand, Mexico/USA, 1986). Programmed by Daniella Shreir @ Another Gaze/Another Screen.
'HANDS TIED’
Jointly programmed by Cosmic Reductions & Another Screen, this programme brings together two very different films about hands: Maria Lassnig's Palmistry (1973) and Ayesha Hameed's A Rough History (of the Destruction of Fingerprints) (2016). These works are contextualised and their scope extended further by a transcribed roundtable discussion between Rachel Aumiller, Sam Dolbear, Nadine El-Enany, Amelia Groom, Clio Nicastro, Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen, and M. Ty, who discuss fate, work, pleasure, touch, and surveillance. This roundtable has been translated into Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean and Greek.
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Fists
Vegetalism of the body
Divination of feet
Queer magazine histories
The bisexuality of the palm tree in kabbalah (continued)
Telephony in palmistry and gambling
Agoraphobia
Left/right hand
Policing of gesture
Launch of The Hand Museum
Séances
The Case
Graphology
Walter Benjamin’s essay ‘Fate and Character’ (1920-21)
Signatures
Boxing
Socialistes
Tenderness toward inanimate objects (Herman Schryver)
Gossip
Colonialism and the body as archive
The relationship between mysticism and professionalism
Man Ray and adolescent art
Phalanges/militarism
Gloves
‘Hands Tied’ was kindly part-sponsored by the ICI Berlin, but translation, distribution, subtitling fees for the whole programme far exceeded this support. If you feel able to support Another Screen, please do.