Memory Without Measure
Writer and film curator Yasmina Price offers a screening program of short films by various contemporary artists, parallel to the exhibition of artist Suneil Sanzgiri’s new commission An Impossible Address. Price, whose reflections on post-colonial solidarity appear in Sanzgiri’s film, was a close interlocutor of the artist during the work’s production. Drawing on her robust engagement with politically-engaged African cinema, Price will also offer an introduction at the top of the program.
Paired with short films by contemporary artists, a selection from Franco-Guadeloupean filmmaker Sarah Maldoror’s Carnival Trilogy will open this screening of films.
Program
- À Bissau le carnaval (Carnival in Bissau)
- Sarah Maldoror, 1980, 18 min
- Cuba
- Filipa César, 2013, 11 min
- Measures of Distance
- Mona Hatoum, 1988, 16min
- Landslides
- Caroline Déodat, 2020, 12min
- Le roi n’est pas mon cousin (The King is not my Cousin)
- Annabelle Aventurin, 2022, 30 min
- Total run time: 87 minutes
Main Image: Suneil Sanzgiri, An Impossible Address, film still, 2025. Courtesy the artist.
“Memory Without Measure assembles cinematic experiments in archiving and worldmaking. The program features documentaries by women filmmakers and artists who construct the record of a speculative history that refuses to be limited by time. Working through national histories and personal memories, featured artists bring together the physical territories and haunted landscapes of struggle, and bridge familial kinship with political solidarity. Their aesthetic practices of liberation are transmitted through letters, soil, photographs, conversations, carnival masks, books, and dance. Here, scattered across geographies and histories of struggle, the memory of a world free from colonization exists as an incomplete tapestry. There are gaps—but every thread is connected.”
—Yasmina Price
Dates + Tickets
FREE—Registration Requested
EMPAC programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.