The Documented and the Fictionalized: Saodat Ismailova, Dirk Snauwaert, Ala Younis

The Black Box, a small-scale theater/cinema, located in hall B1, has been created to provide a space for watching films together on a single screen. While a number of films use poetic language or mythical characters to excavate the past and unfold the stories embedded in places and histories, others draw from themes ranging from ancient Arabic poetry to the science of the Amazonian Forest, the migration of birds, plantations, and crypto mining. The lines of inquiry pursued in each film contextualize the impact of hegemonic structures within a range of geographies, while offering windows into alternate imaginaries. Dedicated to the possibilities of the moving image, this panel invites film curators and scholars to respond to the film program of After Rain, in conversation with two of the participating artists.