the only possible city
Anthology Film Archives - 32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003
The films and videos in this program all explore the ways that cinema has both acquiesced to and
challenged the desire to bind people and places to instantly accessible records of their presence.
Focusing instead on the disjuncture between subjects and their images, events and their retelling,
facts and values, these works are structurally split between a voice and the representations of a
particular event, person or place. Through their respective considerations of the agency of speech
and the conjunction of word and image, they foreground the constructed nature of positivist
taxonomies and profiles to further destabilize the systems of classification whose identities the
photographic index alone once guaranteed.
organized by Mike Crane, Ryan Garrett and Edward Kihn
in conjunction with the 2008 New York Underground Film Festival
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