The film tracks Fresnel lenses from their site of production to their exhibition in a museum of lighthouses and navigational devices. It also examines the diverse social contexts in which optics are implicated, contrasting the system of triangular trade that followed the first European arrivals in the ‘New World’ with the political potential seen in Op art in post-revolutionary Cuba. Incorporating 16mm celluloid images, digital desktop captures and 3D CGI, the film also maps a technological trajectory: from historical methods of optical navigation to new algorithms of locating, from singular projection to multi-perspectival satellitic visions. Registering these technical advances progressively through the film’s materials and means of production, Sunstone creates “a cinema of affect, a cinema of experience – an Op- Film.”

1.36GB | 35m 00s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/1972B587D728276/Sunstone_(Cesar_+_Henderson,_2017).mkv

Language(s):Portuguese,English
Subtitles:English hardcoded

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Reflecting on the legacy of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture, follows a collective’s process of translating Édouard Glissant’s play Monsieur Toussaint from French to Creole.

2.24GB | 2h 20m | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/ABB47FB36C38B30/Ouvertures.2019.SUBBED.720p.WEB.x264-gooz.mkv

Language:French,Haitian
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

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A technographic study of e-recycling and neo-colonial mining filmed in the Agbogbloshie electronic waste ground in Accra and illegal gold mines of Ghana. The video constructs a mise-en-abyme as critique in order to dispel the capitalist myth of the immateriality of new technology — thus revealing the mineral weight with which the Cloud is grounded to its earthly origins.

“As technological progress pushes forward in the West, enormous piles of obsolete computers are thrown away and recycled. Pushed out of sight and sent to the coast of West Africa, these computers are thrown into waste grounds such as Agbogbloshie in Accra, Ghana. On arrival the e-waste is recuperated by young men, who break and burn the plastic casings in order to extract the precious metals contained within. Eventually the metals are sold, melted and reformed into new objects to be sold; it is a strange system of recycling, a kind of reverse neocolonial mining, whereby the African is searching for mineral resources in the materials of Europe. Through showing these heavy processes, the video highlights the importance of dispelling the capitalist myth of the immateriality of new technology to reveal the mineral weight with which the Cloud is grounded to its earthly origins.”

— Louis Henderson

https://nitro.download/view/CFD1571FC379ACE/All_That_Is_Solid.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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