"Nostalgia for the Light" | Hide & Seek: Secrets & Secrecy | - Science & Power

More  often than we know it, the surface of things encapsulates a  deviant  story or materiality that flees from the present time or from  expected  modes of perception. Be it as ways to maintain power, as  fossilized  expressions of marginalization or as delusions, we see  secrets as an  important motif to critically approach History, Science  and all modes  of accumulated knowledge.

As part of The Cursed Assembly‘s  programme, a new series of  gatherings will facilitate a discussion  around secrets & secrecy,  taking films as a starting point for a  conversation. We will gather on  every last Wednesday of the month, and  each gathering will focus on a  different mode through which secrets come  to be.

Each session will consist of a short contextualization of a movie, a   screening, and a discussion. We want to create a space to watch movies   together, but we also emphasize the discussion-based part of it. We  want  to know what you think! The discussion will follow the film, but  the  topic will most likely feed forward into the viewing of the film  itself.