Stones Have Laws - a hybrid documentary film project by Dutch artists Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan and the Surinamese theater maker and poet Tolin Alexander. The film presents the colonial history that the Netherlands and Suriname share from the perspective of the Maroons – descendants of Africans [...]
At Lagos Photo 2017, VRIZA presents a program of artist films engaging with the representation of truth by cinematographic means. The screening program includes five short films by international visual artists crossing the fields of fiction and documentary. The films meditate on the nature of the image as well as on definitions of nature. They are experiments with forms of realism, animation, and storytelling. The artists sometimes use image materials found in archives and/or their own, recent digital recordings. In so doing, the short films touch upon the relation between image technology and human memory.
