02.11-02.11.2026
Cinéma forde: Lisa Mazenauer, Trinh T. Minh-ha
Lisa Mazenauer, Trinh T. Minh-ha
Cinéma forde is a screening series dedicated to films at the intersection of art and cinema, as well as practices situated around and between these fields. Hosted by Spoutnik, the program explores how visual forms circulate between movie theater, white cube, independent scenes, and the economies of moving images.
Screening on November 2, 20:30
Pay-what-you-can admission
Lisa Mazenauer
Copper Tales
CH, 2022, 4’, no dialogue
At Riotinto, in southern Spain, copper mining has transformed landscapes, bodies and time itself. From river to bacteria, Copper Tales explores the traces of extraction and what it leaves behind.
Lisa Mazenauer
The Right to Forget
CH, 2025, 24’, no dialogue, English subtitles
Investigating her grandfather and his gold mines in former Zaire, Mazenauer is faced with archival gaps. The film explores how silence and denial shape both intimate and national memory.
Lisa Mazenauer
Jamais souffert de nuages
CH, 2026, 8’, French, English subtitles
At Basel Zoo, the story of the okapis reveals ties between Switzerland, Belgium and the DRC. Through archives and colonial legacies, the film portrays the animal as a silent witness to a cross-border history.
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Reassemblage
US/SN, 1982, 40’, English, French subtitles
Tourné dans un village du Sénégal,
Filmed in a Senegalese village, Reassemblage questions ethnographic documentary, the filmmaker’s position and how cinema constructs her gaze.