Film — Combat Breathing

Combat Breathing x Anthology Film Archives

Drawing on the histories of Third Cinema and other anti-colonial and anti-imperial cultural movements, the moving-image program at Anthology Film Archives considers how these traditions persist, mutate, and reemerge in the present. Organized into six chapters comprising twenty-seven film and video works, this segment of Combat Breathing explores the convergences of aesthetics and politics: how abstractions and contradictions can take sensate form on screen; where the militant image resides today; how images index and reveal infrastructures of labor; the pervasiveness of and resistance to carceral logics; strategic reappropriations of imaging technologies; and the capacity of media to institute and reorganize desire.

Each of the chapters of the moving-image program involves introductions and discursive contributions by a range of cultural workers; this group will include Omar Alsayyed, Carmen Amengual, Nour Annan, Omar Berrada, Alma Chaouachi, Harris Chowdhary, Chris Knowles and Laura Whitehorn (RAPP), Tiffany Malakooti, Carlos Motta, Perwana Nazif, and Christian Nyampeta.

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Thursday, October 1 6:30PM
INSURGENT POIESIS read more

Introduced and moderated by KJ Abudu & Adam HajYahia,
followed by a conversation with Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Camila Galaz, and Omar Berrada.

Tony Cokes - Evil 35: Carlin / Owners, 2012 (8 minutes)
Filipa César - Transmission from the Liberated Zones, 2015 (30 minutes)
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme - Oh shining star testify, 2016 - 2019 (10 minutes)
Shiva Addanki - a permanent opium war, 2026 (10 minutes)
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos - Faces in the Crowd 2: Memorial, 2019 (14 minutes)
Camila Galaz - Vecino, Vecino, 2022 (20 minutes)

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Friday, October 2 7PM
THE TIME BENEATH THE CONCRETE read more

Introduced by Chris Knowles

Alex Johnston - Evidence of the Evidence, 2018 (20 minutes)
Sky Hopinka, Sunflower Siege Engine, 2022 (12 minutes)
Larry Clark - As Above, So Below, 1973 (52 minutes)

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Saturday, October 3
PERPETUAL RECURRENCE read more

PART I 4 PM
Introduced by Carmen Amengual

Mila Turajlić - Ciné-Guerrillas, 2022 (94 minutes)

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PART II 6:30 PM
Introduced by Christian Nyampeta

John Akomfrah & Black Audio Film Collective - Testament, 1988 (80 minutes)

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PART III 8:30 PM
Introduced by Tiffany Malakooti

Reem Shilleh - Perpetual Recurrences, 2016 (60 minutes)

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Sunday, October 4
POSTSCRIPTS OF MODERNITY read more

PART I 4:15 PM
Introduced by Harris Chowdhary

Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers - Taking Back the Legislature, 2020 (45 minutes)
Bahar Noorizadeh - After Scarcity, 2018 (30 minutes)

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PART II 6:30 PM
Introduced by Alma Chaouachi

Nadir Bouhmouch - Amussu, 2019 (100 minutes)

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Tuesday, October 6
LABORING IMAGES, IMAGING LABOR read more

PART I 6:30 PM
Introduced by Nour Annan

Sara Gómez, About Extra Hours and Volunteer Work, 1973 (9 minutes)
Sara Gómez, Year One, 1972 (9 minutes)
Dina Mimi, Thousand Thrashing Arms, 2024 (13 minutes)
Maissa Maatouk, Exercise in Waiting, 2023 (7 minutes)
Nicolas Gourault, Their Eyes, 2025 (23 minutes)

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PART II 8:15 PM
Introduced by Perwana Nazif

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet - Sicilia!, 1999 (66 minutes)

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Thursday, October 8
READ MY DESIRE read more

PART I 6:30 PM
Introduced by Carlos Motta

Marlon Riggs - Anthem, 1991 (9 minutes)
Valentin Noujaïm - Oceania, 2024 (24 minutes)
Michelle Parkerson - Odds and Ends, 1993 (28 minutes)

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PART II 8:15 PM
Introduced by Omar Alsayyed

Peng Zuqiang - Sight Leak, 2022 (12 minutes)
Jumana Manna - Blessed Blessed Oblivion, 2010 (21 minutes)
Naomi Rincón-Gallardo - Patlache Ant Nest, 2025 (21 minutes)

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