Listening to the Archive
Listening to the Archive explores the colonial sound archive as both a record of extraction and a site of renewed listening. Bringing together two distinct approaches—an imageless film composed entirely from archival recordings and a radiophonic work that critically engages with a museum collection—the program considers how acts of listening can challenge inherited narratives, reveal archival absences, and open new ways of encountering colonial histories.
- 22 September
- 17:30
- Cinema Kijkhuis
An imageless film, sounds from a repatriated colonial archive are interrogated to construct an emancipatory relistening to sounds collected through colonial violence.
A relistening and reinterpretation of colonial recordings of New Guinea made in 1961 by Michael Rockefeller, heir to the Standard Oil family.