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Compressed Distances
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Gestures to break an image, dir. Mayra Villavicencio Príncipe, Peru 2026, 15 min.

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Contending with oppression, violence, and dispossession, these four works embody acts of defiance and solidarity; some enacted up close, others from afar. As images narrow the gaps, kinships are formed.

Gestures to break an image, dir. Mayra Villavicencio Príncipe, Peru 2026, 15 min.
Protests and police brutality in Lima are witnessed from abroad. Interventions are made using video editing tools and incisive commentary.

Going Home, dir. Kamal Aljafari, Germany/France/Palestine 2026, 21 min.
At his parent’s home, agonised by news of relatives killed in Gaza, Aljafari films a local broadcast from a television.

Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo, dir. Kamal Aljafari, Germany/Japan/France 2026, 27 min.
The routine task of taking a passport photo reveals the impasse that prominent filmmaker Masao Adachi continues to live through.

sitrep, dir. Blair Barnes, USA 2026, 20 min.
An interview recorded with analogue video reveals the hardships and perseverance throughout the subject’s life. Intergenerational exchange becomes mutual aid.

Total runtime: 83 min.

 
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Tue, 13 Oct 2026
Cinema 1
06:20 pm
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