Memory, secrecy, speculation
Film Programme
A programme in which language and images-as-evidence become suspect. Assumption is a virtuosic personal tribute, a glimpse at history and a celebration of independent film culture. Perfect Film is just that – a complete reel of found footage of interviews with witnesses to the assassination of Malcolm X. The Speculative Archive examine secrecy in our time of heightened security; the ‘disappearance’ of a former CIA source, the burial at sea of six Soviet sailors and a missile strike on Yemen in 2002.

Assumption, Peter Gidal (UK 1997, 16mm, 1min)
Perfect Film, Ken Jacobs (US 1986, 16mm, 22mins)
It’s not my memory of it: three recollected documents, The Speculative Archive (US 2003, video, 25mins)

£5.50/3.50 concs & Whitechapel members.
Season ticket to Argument £18.13

Free for Whitechapel Associates and Patrons.