The Informants

The filmprogramme is curated by the artist group New Red Order who has a big group exhibition, ‘ New Red Order Presents: One if by Land, Two if by Sea’, at Kunsthal Charlottenborg from March 23- August 7.

For Indigenous people, the camera is a dangerous weapon, one that has been wielded against them since the device’s inception.

Anthropology’s obsession with preserving images of so-called vanishing cultures, through ethnographic films or, relatedly, archives filled with boxes of ancestral remains, has long been a tool used to colonize and oppress Indigenous peoples.

In the works assembled for this film programme, the power of Indigenous people claiming the camera for themselves is explored.

Programme:
Chris Spotted Eagle, Do Indians Shave?, 1975. 10 min.
New Red Order, Never Settle: Calling In, 2020. 4 min.
Erica Lord & Noelle Mason, Redman, 2005. 4 min.
Caroline Monnet, Mobilize, 2015. 3 min.
Sean Connelly, A Justice-Advancing Architecture Tour, 2021. 14 min.
Thirza Jean Cuthand, Reclamation, 2018. 13 min.
Pia Arke, Tupilakosaurus, 1999. 9 min.
Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco, The Couple in the Cage, 1993. 32 min.

The film programme can be experienced during Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s opening hours, except other events take place in our cinema. The admission is free to the film programme with paid entrance to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.