The Liberated Film Clubrunning from its birth to its death, 2016 to 2020would guarantee a wide wing-span for critical conversation. Screening Liberated film (a loose category designed to scaffold the show), a guest would be invited to introduce a film; an audience seated to watch it through; but thered be an interruption to that typical format. Neither the audience nor the guest would have any idea what film would be shown, and this anonymized format would invite broad and antagonistic perambulation on the what, the why and the how of film. An interrogation of what we do when we sit in a cinema; a reckoning with the kind of posture we should assume when we frame a film for further talk. Playing with the various ways we should consider and reproach the institutions built around all of our cultures of making and the manners and methods of all of our cultures of consumption, the Liberated Film Club was a rare reflection on the act of reflection itself.
| Author: Stanley Schtinter, Shezad Dawood, Chris Petit