In this artist talk, Jonathan Perel (Camuflaje) will discuss his practice through the idea of cinema as counter-monument.

“Like monuments, cinema responds to a demand for memory by trusting in its own ability to remember the past. We fool ourselves by believing that a film can do that for us. But films as counter-monuments challenge this by trying to break the monumental rigidness that condemns the viewer to a passive observation. They don’t aim to be everlasting, they tend to their own disappearance, insisting in their own impossibility to remember. A spectator who approaches cinema looking for memory will discover that the film transfers that responsibility back, as an enigma that is not meant to be solved.” (Jonathan Perel)