SI is pleased to present a weekly series of film screenings taking place during Rafał Scoczek's offsite solo exhibition, Kino Drift.

The screening series draws on Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino's 1969 manifesto “Towards a Third Cinema,” which called for a cinema that was democratic and popular: independently produced, politically militant, formally experimental, and focused on anti-colonial, anti-imperialist struggle as well as the lives of oppressed people.

Taking heed of the manifesto's critique of passive spectatorship and its argument for a critical and engaged mode of viewing that transforms the screening into a social and pedagogical environment, the series similarly treats each screening as a structured event for watching and discussing films together. Scoczek has invited various collectives who actively adopt these strategies in their practice.

Initating the series is Blackhole Cinematheque, a community microcinema and archive project located on xučyun (unceded Chochenyo, Muwekma, and Ohlone land), also known as Oakland, California.

Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.

This event will take place at WSA, 161 Water Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10038.