Loss and Intimacy – with The Intangible Cinema Project

Can the domestic and personal space—spaces that suddenly became threatening and alienating—be reimagined after a devastating rupture? In the short films screened at this event, the three women directors craft visual diaries in which the camera becomes a tool for searching and observing the complexity of the realities they experience. Blending documentary imagery with experimental aesthetics, the films reflect feelings of estrangement and disconnection, while gesturing toward the fragile beginnings of healing. Rotem Elkaim and Shani Cohen, two young filmmakers, created their works after being evacuated from their homes in Sderot and Mefalsim following October 7. In the early 1970s, the then-unknown young director Chantal Akerman moved to New York, where she filmed her short piece La Chambre (The Room). Spanning fifty years and emerging from vastly different contexts, these three films offer distinct yet resonant female experiences of searching and existing, which challenge cinematic practice itself. A panel moderated by Shani Kiniso and Judith Lenglart.