Echoes in the Frame

As part of the current exhibition, Archives in the Tongue: A Litany of Freedoms, Charlottenborg Art Cinema presents Echoes in the Frame. Curated by Culture Art Society (CAS) it is a discursive strand to Jeannette Ehlers solo exhibition, with a total of thirteen short films screening over the exhibition’s period.

The programme is a gathering of works that provide a brief chronological insight into the trajectory of Ehlers’ filmic praxis as well as their central paradigms through seven videoworks from 2007 to 2020. In widening both artistic and thematic exchanges, Ehlers works are positioned in dialogue with five experimental short films by other moving image artists of African descent, who similarly seek to restructure positionalities and shed light on counterhistories that unite our past, present, and future.

A range of expressions and interventions are highlighted with each offering significant confrontations with the filmic apparatus and forms of representation in order to rethink both the cinematic form and its purpose. Here, the camera collides with the abstract and various audiovisual techniques –including sound and found footage– for uncompromising and sharp  meditations that interweave memories, and other streams of being to reflect upon Black lives across time and space.

Programme

Jeannette Ehlers, Ventilate, 2007. 4 mins

Jeannette Ehlers, Black Magic at the White House, 2009. 4 mins

Jeannette Ehlers, Black Bullets, 2012. 5 mins

Jeannette Ehlers, Speed Up that Day, 2014. 4 mins

Jeannette Ehlers, How do you talk about three hundred years in four minutes, 2014. 5 mins

Jeannette Ehlers, This Open Grave, 2016. 9 mins

Jeannette Ehlers, The Gaze, 2020. 6 mins

Barbara McCullough, Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification, 1979. 6 min

Zeinabu Irene Davis, Cycles, 1989. 17 mins

Ufuoma Essi, Bodies in Dissent, 2021. 6 min

Myriam Charles, Drei Atlas (Three Atlas), 2018. 7 min

Nuotama Bodomo, Boneshaker, 2013. 12 min

The filmprogram can be experienced in Charlottenborg Art Cinema 14 June – 7 August 2022.

The cinema will however be used for other events on June 29 and June 30.