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IMAGE SPEAK

The essays innermost formal law is heresy. Through violations of the orthodoxy of thought, something in the object becomes visible which is orthodoxys secret and objective aim to keep invisible. Theodor Adorno

Does the moving image become an illustration of text, or is text created in response to footage? What does a process look like in which the text and image are being developed simultaneously? IMAGE SPEAK celebrates the world of essay films in which little hierarchical delineation between text and the moving image exists. As Timothy Corrigan writes in The History Of The Essay Film (2017) these are works that do not create new forms of experimentation, realism, or narrative; they rethink existing ones as a dialogue of ideas.

Organized by Georgia Wall and Rachel James.

With works by:

Peggy Ahwesh
Moyra Davey
Hito Steyerl
Stanya Khan

Featuring new work by:

Alex Schmidt
Alia Ayman Hassab
Ashley Davis
Betsey Brown
Emilia Ulbricht
Jennifer Atalla
Kevin Ritter
Lili White
Mia Ardito
Morgan King
Rachel Lazar
Samantha White
Sara O'Brien
Sonia De Jager