Date: 04.09.2025 — 11.09.2025
Beginning: 19:00

The next chapter of the Beyond Belief screening series presents a selection of art films that turn to the past and future of communities that bear traces of the pressures of Western domination in their bodies and everyday lives. Yet these communities retain their own cultures, stories and metaphysical frameworks, defying the hegemonic logic of the West. From the perspective of white modernity, the alternative worlds depicted in the curated film series may appear as fictions, allegories, or alternative realities. However, they represent very real forms of existence and memory intertwined with visions of the future. Time and relations to human and non-human bodies and landscapes are not as linear or unambiguous in these narratives as they are in the European cultural tradition.

This layering of worlds, narratives and relationships is represented by the mask, a common feature of these films and a symbol of the dynamic interplay of identity and diverse phenomena. Here, the mask is not merely an object or a prop, but a mediator that enables the invisible to be seen and the unsuspected to be realised. It opens access to other realities, stories and ways of being.

Selected films:

Karrabing Film Collective: Night Fishing with Ancestors, 2023, 24’17’’

Francois Knoetze: Kinshasa, 2018, 12’42’’, Dakar, 2018, 12’12’’

Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Boat People, 2020, 20’

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Screening in etc. gallery: 4th September 2025, 7 pm.

Online screening: 5 – 11 September 2025

Curator: Sára Märc
Graphic design: Nela Klímová
Translation and subtitle timing: Markéta Effenbergerová

Czech proofreading: Michal Jurza

English translation and proofreading: John Hill
Production: Tereza Vinklárková, Nela Klajbanová

Web support: Ondřej Roztočil

 

The project is supported by the City of Prague, Prague 2 District, and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.