Urgent Pedagogies:
Wóyde Cineforum, Why Matter Matters

Screening between 18 October – 13 November,
Online Event 13 Nov 2024, 6 – 8 pm CET

DAAS Cineforum discussion, 2022 at the Difficult Heritage Summer School, Borgo Rizza, Sicily. Photo by Steffie De Gaetano

IASPIS announces the VIIth session of wóyde Cineforum: “Why Matter Matters”, sharing a selection of films to watch and follow up in an online seminar that brings together film makers and cineforum founders.

Urgent Pedagogies is for the first time hosting wóyde Cineforum and a post-vision conversation of the VIIth session entiteled Why Matter Matters. Enjoy the film selection before 13th November and join the online event in which two directors and you are invited to share thoughts and sensations arising from the video material. Participants are also encouraged to question ideas and methodologies and propose new scenarios based on the suggested images (please see links to the films and online event below).

During this event we will ask: is it possible to look at matter as an ally in building our life? We will consider the knowledge embedded in matter to put in crisis the modern paradigm that considers it as an inert stock of resources available at human disposal, a passive material, a subjugated symbol of unjust power structures, or even as a weaponized tool.

The online event is hosted by st(r)ay (Silvia Susanna, Alice Pontiggia and Steffie De Gaetano) and invites directors Susan Shuppli and Pelin Tan. Introduction by Magnus Ericsson.

wóyde Cineforum is an experimental research tool working through the formula film projection + collective discussion. It is also both the name of the (mainly) digital place where the practice is activated, as well as a mutual learning practice for deepening the knowledge that can stem from collective confrontation in a safe space.