Exhibition Review: "Canicula" Explores Film as Witness to Oppression and Resistance
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Cici Peng
Summary
This article reviews the exhibition "Canicula" at Fondazione In Between Art Film, which uses the Latin term for the "dog days" of summer as a metaphor for the current era of fascism, genocide, war, and technological erosion of human agency. The exhibition explores how film and video, while part of the spectacular superstructure, can also bear witness to individual experience and the textures of daily life that offer reprieve, resistance, or hope. The review examines how the moving image can open up new worlds amidst oppressive conditions.
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It aptly describes a present marked by metastasizing fascism, genocide, and war, sustained by technologies that erode human agency and subjecthood.
This exhibition suggests that film and video might also bear witness to individual experience—and to those textures and minutiae of daily life that offer reprieve, resistance, or hope—while, at its best, opening up new worlds.
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