Artists’s Film International was established in 2008 by Whitechapel Gallery in London and since its inception has seen 32 international venues collaborate. It is an alternative, lateral programme that exemplifies non-hierarchical, borderless and collaborative curatorial models. Responding to urgent global topics, the programme cultivates collective practice and cross-cultural dialogue, fosters the exchange of ideas and perspectives, and provides wide reaching visibility for artists.
The 19th edition of Artists’ Film International, titled A Kind of Power, will bring together moving-image works that consider what it means to look, to witness, and to be seen in an age when images move instantly across borders and where surveillance looms. The programme traces the ways acts of looking produce power – how they can shelter or expose, affirm or diminish – and how responsibility inflects every encounter between the camera, its subject, and its viewer.
The AFI’26 exhibition at Sapieha Palace will be open from June 11 to September 7 in the North Gallery on the first floor. Screenings will take place during the Palace’s opening hours, with three films from the programme shown on a continuous loop, rotating every third week. Admission is free.
Line-up includes: Razia Akbari, Aqsa Arif, Alessandra Ferrini, Kiyo Gutiérrez, Marte Hodne Haugen, Malik Irtiza, Thaís Muniz, Ann Oren, Amaal Said, Mila Turajlić, Video News.
The program will be showcased globally at the following AFI’26 partner venues: argos centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels, Belgium; Center for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan in exile e.V., (CCAA in exile), Frankfurt, Germany; Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia; Forma, London, UK; Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, USA; Project 88, Mumbai, India; Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland; Tromsø Kunstforening,Tromsø, Norway; Video-Forum of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k), Berlin, Germany; with further partners to be announced.
For programming updates, stay tuned via artistsfilminternational.com