The seismic shifts that have risen from the afterburn of the 20th century are a distinguishing feature of our age: the fall of communism; failed colonial projects giving rise to civil war and mass migration; unfettered consumption that slowly destroys the planet; extremist shifts to the right, to religion, and to the rule of law through mass surveillance. In western democracies we consider ourselves to be in the longest period of peace, but we are beset by unease and forebodings of disaster. We increasingly fear the other. Paranoia and anxiety infuse our media. In our age of mass media, where dramatic events come and go on a daily basis, representations of disaster have become mediated by the visually spectacular. Spectacles preoccupy us, while the continued cause and effects, slow-moving and a long time in the making, often pass by us unnoticed. Disasters of Peace draws together artist-filmmakers who in varying ways eschew the visuals of spectacle. In doing so, they seek to challenge our cultural and conceptual interpretations of disaster. Curated by Kamila Kuc and Sam Jury. Sam Jury works in the areas of new media, moving image, and installation. She focuses on the psychological impact of photomedia, and what she terms “suspended trauma”—the effect of repetitive narratives, often supported by screen technologies. She has been awarded numerous solo exhibitions including To Be Here (2016), a multichannel video and sound installation commissioned by the Broad Art Museum (East Lansing, MI), and All Things Being Equal (2015), a video installation at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin). Her work has been shown in the seminal exhibition Moving Time, and screened at many film festivals. Her work is held in public collections such as the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center (Hungary) and the National Gallery of Art (USA). Jury is recipient of several Arts Council England awards. Kamila Kuc is an experimental filmmaker, writer, and curator. Her films explore the impact of technological devices on ways in which personal and collective memories are created. Kuc’s work has screened at many venues and festivals including ICA and BFI (London); Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival (Scotland); Montreal Underground Film Festival (Canada); Experiments in Cinema (New Mexico); Milwaukee Women’s Film Festival (Wisconsin); and Alternative Film/Video (Serbia). Her work is held in the artinCINEMA archives (Budapest). Kuc is the recipient of many grants, most recently one from the National Endowment for the Humanities (USA).