May - Jun
30min | Rating TBC
Showtimes
Sat
10, 17, 24, 31 May - 7.20pm
11, 14, 21 May - 7.20pm
Four-channel film screening - the film will be played across 4 screens at ArtScience Cinema.
In biracial artist Emeline Courcier's BURN FROM ABSENCE, she attempts to reconstruct lost memories of her maternal family who had gone through the Vietnam War - her grandmother had burned all photographs of that traumatic history in an act of defiant resilience. Using AI technology and voices of her family from phone calls, she retraces their faces, places, and lives as a docu-fiction experiment, crafting memory as a form of persevering inheritance, and measuring the distance of trauma.
Emeline Courcier will be present for an in-person post-screening Q&A on 24th May, Saturday.
In conjunction with Mind and Body: The Art and Science of Being Human, an exploration of what it means to think, feel, and exist as human beings.
Image courtesy of Phi Center.