In a dual screen phantasmagoria we are conjuring past and future ghosts of women who made films politically, or gave their presence to films politically. We refuse to forget. Our hands scratched and shot new images while stealing images from others, in fresh and outdated film stocks. Our hands developed the images in the dark, negative and positive, shadows of shadows. Our eyes widened in view of the spectral images appearing on the surface of the film strips, and each time our disquiet hands will interfere and throw color and light to those images on screen. There’s no avoiding the ghosts in the machines; in moments of haunted liveness such as this all is doomed to disappear and return in other shapes.
With support from Austrian Cultural Forum New York