Achala contains a personal message between the artist’s mother and her sister in Tibet. They discuss keeping in touch through pictures, which represents a safe form of exchange for their monitored communications.

Tamer El Said appropriates another family’s amateur footage to reclaim a memory of a lost sibling. The installation invites visitors to look for their own recollections in the same footage, creating an act of collective remembrance in the process.

The installation features video projections of waterfalls, which are inspired by the story of the “Fickle Falls” in Lebanon, which were named and renamed numerous times by militias engaged in the Lebanese wars, depending on their shifting alliances.

A joyful moment of a child dancing to a contemporary Tibetan song in a Tibetan dwelling. The boy, all the while making lively dance moves, looks straight at the camera – for which he is seemingly performing – humorously and charmingly.

The artist’s parents are seen sleeping on a single mattress on the floor, akin to the one they used when they first immigrated to the West from Tibet. Despite the uncertainty of the time, this remains one of the artist’s fondest childhood memories.

A fable, using song and text to tell the story of a present frozen in Medusa’s gaze. Human and non-human protagonists appear: a historian from Alexandria, Carbon-12 and Carbon-14, as well as a gorgon who roams a city, detecting pasts and futures.

A two-channel video on feelings around familial expressions of care, language, identity, and memories of and longing for a lost homeland, which are expressed unspoken. Featuring the artist’s parents who fled Tibet as children in the early 1960s.

A descendant of Exodusters – African Americans who founded settlements in the American Midwest in the late 19th century – recounts memories, dreams, and visions of her ancestor’s memories.

A yak herder shares a series of clips filmed during their typical day on the sunny grasslands of Tibet, offering a rare glimpse of daily life shared between two family members that have been separated for over 40 years.

As a preview of the 60th anniversary of the Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek (today: Arsenal), the installation of videos by the Japanese avant-garde pioneer, who died in July 2022, commemorates a screening at the Arsenal cinema on Welserstraße.

In the longest GIF you’ve ever seen, scales are flipped and imperceptible movements are unveiled. Images from a camera passing through a digestive system and gazes into the far distance sustain each other with the tension of celestial bodies.

The title of this film translates to the Shona word “Gukurahundi”, a cynical euphemism which refers to a series of massacres executed in the wake of Zimbabwe’s liberation. The work unfolds as a mosaic, evoking ghosts in the shapes of nationhood and ancestry.

The 2022 travel vlog Trip After revisits the reports of the 1960s United States Information Service mobile film units’ field trips for anti-communist psychological operations in Northeast Thailand.

Anna Zett collages mostly forgotten footage from the Berlin Archive of the GDR Opposition into a pulsating short thriller. A defunct police state is experienced both as a source of nebulous horror and as a site of political and poetic self-empowerment.

After seeing him mentioned on a bishop’s transcript held in a Gloucestershire archive, Dan goes for a walk in the woods in search of Daniel, a man buried in Nympsfield on December 31, 1719 and described in the document as “a black stranger.”

A meditation film in 30-second sequences about the artist’s father that links geographies, times, the living and the dead with a metal sword – the montage. A film shot in the spirit of Bruce Baillie.

Searching for the house his father grew up in, director Lei Lei charts the story of a childhood in rural China using a mix of found footage, collage and animation techniques: a moving account of all the things the father thinks he was not good at.

Stories of migrants and their descendants in Germany: a monument for a Pakistani poet in Munich, the payslips of a Turkish Gastarbeiter in Kiel, three sisters turning a decolonial gaze on Bavarian history.

Pivoting between two stories of women and their relationships with objects – one marries the Berlin Wall, the other stabs a Velázquez painting – Exhibition is a meditation on the assertion and refusal of subjecthood.

A tribute to the work of Black female artists, fusing filmmaking and sculpture into a poetic study of the manual labour that goes into making art.

Parastoo Anoushahpour’s essay film takes inspiration from the Sodom and Gomorrah tale of Lot to examine questions of family, geography and the fraught ownership of narratives.

Through a collection of incomplete fictions, this film portrays Delhi in times of lockdown and unrest. Priya Sen constructs a kaleidoscope of resilient voices that keep the language of hatred at bay and absorb the city’s grief and euphoria.

This short film features Dripp and ChoSkii of the music group BmE composing and recording their latest composition, “Shiesty,” in the Columbus, Mississippi studio of Country Blakk, only to be interrupted by a John Cage score.

A collage film about Sri Lankan labour migration to the Middle East, using popular culture and anecdotal, intimate recollections by the filmmaker’s relatives to challenge monolithic narratives of personal history and middle-class Muslim upbringing.

A story about storytelling: after returning to his hometown to work in his sister’s fruit processing factory, Earth slowly but surely pulls out of the family business to dedicate himself to writing an abstract, gory novel.

Speculation as a method for worldbuilding: Simia was created in conversation with the fictitious artificial intelligence programme Project Simiyaa, which aims to create a planned economy and manage infrastructural commons across Africa and the Middle East.

Sanaz Sohrabi creates an archival constellation from the still and moving images of the British Petroleum Archives, documenting the expansive colonial network behind the British geophysical expeditions that spanned across Iran in the early 20th century.