What do we think when we read the words: “A snake on a tree”? This short phrase (the title of a text-based work by Roberto Ago), can function as the departure point for an inspiring exercise in “directed” imagination. A snake on a tree. Is it a biblical image? Does it suggest an ordinary or rather an unexpected, potentially threatening event? Is it just a metaphor? And of what, exactly?

This screening stages a conversation between videos that somehow need the viewer's attention and imagination to be "completed" and fully understood/enjoyed. Fragmentary discourses, visual suggestions and the uninhibited use of cinematic, lexical and vernacular tropes abound. Text is often used as image, while images tend to be flattened down, reduced to their literal meaning or used to conceal and mislead.

The screening is curated and edited by Marco Antonini and includes videos by Roberto Ago, Cecilia Bonilla, Joshua Callaghan, Wojciech Gilewicz, Pernille With Madsen, Chris Moukarbel, Ana Prvacki, Moira Ricci, Lucia Uni, Virginie Yassef, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries.

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