From Nicole Kidman’s BDSM adventures to a pastoral docudrama by French twin directors Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, here are five films to keep an eye out for this year
These four films deal with the possible subversions of digital space, raising questions around identity and surveillance, in direct or symbolic ways. While Dineo Seshee Bopape’s is i am sky offers the possibility of cosmic infinity as a frontier for Black liberation, Alison Nguyen’s and Vitória Cribb’s works raise concerns about contemporary forms of oppression, through the generalization of digital mechanisms of control.
Together, the four works reflect ways of finding – unmonitored – spaces to connect in today’s age. They aptly emphasize how the interplay between capitalism and technology has driven economic inequality and exploitative dependency and offer possibilities of liberation through the blurring of identity markers and the construction of alternate universes.
Program:
Stephanie Comilang, Lumapit Sa Akin, Paraiso (Come to Me Paradise), 2016, 25 min
Alison Nguyen, my favorite software is being here, 2021, 20 min
