Sensitive Content

“If we show you pictures of napalm damage, you’ll close your eyes,” says Harun Farocki at the beginning of NICHT LÖSCHBARES FEUER. In the face of such violence, we close our eyes first to images, then to memory, fact and finally to the connections between them. SENSITIVE CONTENT considers this conundrum and the role of social media in showing/not showing images of resistance and their counter-shot: police and institutional violence. We have all seen the icon—a little eye— before a particular type of image. How is it that political struggle is always kept a blur? (Lucía Salas)

This film will be shown as part of the screening SHORT FILM PROGRAM 4: VISIBILITIES.