Kuratoru sleja – Dziedināšana

NB: The following is an extract from an email thread between the curators.

from: Carlo A. Cubero
to: Irati Lafragua, Daniel Allen, Marta Kucza
date:  20 Mar 2022, 10:30
subject: RPFF 2022 Poster Design

Hello,

Our designer Evridiki Papaiakovou has sent in a draft of the poster design for this year's RPFF. What you figure?

I like the potential of this shape to communicate the sense of healing that we've been discussing. This image suggests a healing that is about a whole environ, it isn’t located in a specific practise or anywhere – it isn’t a "moment in time" nor a "point in space".

The design contributes to the idea that healing isn’t about achieving normalcy or health. What I got from watching the films, is that "healing" is a word to use to describe an ethical system that starts from the idea that we live through others. That our sense of "self" is relational, not a pre-determined object nor the product of a subjective consciousness.

The "healing" that I am getting from the films is suggested in the way relationships work out in the films, the way connections are made – a way of doing things, rather than a state of mind or body. These ethics acknowledge that we are as much part of the problem as part of the solution.

Carlo

from: Marta Kucza
date: 22 Mar 2022, 11:22
subject: Re: RPFF 2022 Poster Design

I like the idea of healing as an ethical stance and as being through others. What I also see in this drawing is multiplicity.

It reminds me of Deleuze getting annoyed with Freud who had been diagnosing a certain Wolfman. The guy dreamt about six or seven wolves during one of his neurotic episodes. Freud then started to look for explanations for the number of wolves in the dream (ie. two wolves means this, three wolves means that, and at the end everything points to one: The Father). Then Deleuze says: Are you for real? You can't be one wolf, you're always eight, or nine or seven. The Wolf is the pack!

Can we say that healing happens when the experience is redistributed?

And, most of all: Can healing be at all described beyond human subjectivity?

Marta

from: Irati Lafragua
date: 22 Mar 2022, 13:24
subject:  Re: RPFF 2022 Poster Design

Hi all,

I agree that the idea of collectiveness is a strong point of healing that is conveyed in the drawing. It brought to me a sense of caring; and caring for each other is healing.

I also like the idea of zooming in a bit more on the image, losing the sense of the whole picture, and look more into the lines.

Healing is a difficult word to think about. Watching all these films, I realized that healing always has different shapes, rhythms and outcomes; healing is never linear, and it is never the same for the protagonists. It is not even the same for the viewers, who experience their own healing by witnessing moments in the lives of others. Or for the filmmakers, who act from the need of being healed themselves.

What I see clearly is that healing is not the opposite of being sick or sad, it is definitely not the end of the road. We should actually ask ourselves more often who needs to be healed, and by which standards.

Irati

from: Daniel Allen
date: 22 Mar 2022, 23:04
subject: Re: RPFF 2022 Poster Design

I also think that it should avoid being too binary. For me this would be a simplistic view of healing that I think we should avoid (healthy/ill, desirable/undesirable, ‘normal’/abnormal, etc.). This would reduce the subtleties that the films are full of.

I like the idea of healing being a journey that is never completed where the departure and arrival points are too complex to identify.

It would be great if the image doesn’t push us towards a clear departure, labelling certain experiences undesirable, or imply that a validation of some sort can be achieved by arriving at a destination.

I am thinking in terms of gradients, rather than contrasts.

Danny

Publicēts: 31.03.2022.