Framing Collective Action
Program series curated by Enar de Dios Rodríguez and Olena Newkryta / The Golden Pixel Cooperative

The screening series Framing Collective Action presents artistic and documentary films created within collective structures. By linking historical and contemporary examples, the series explores the potentials of collective filmmaking through diverse aesthetic approaches. Each film program focuses on a specific spatial context (House, Street, Land) and examines the political and social impact of collective filmmaking both in front of and behind the camera, within and beyond the frame.

Framing Collective Action: House
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 7 pm

House, the first iteration of this series, brings together three short films which frame collaboration and action within a domestic building—simultaneously opening up and critically interrogating the notion of home. Through this selection of audiovisual works, the house reveals itself as an impermanent shelter, a site with questionable borders, and a space that invisibilizes the working conditions of those that must maintain it. Yet, as these films from India, Ukraine, and Brazil demonstrate, this very same house can serve as a place from which collective action might emerge. 

Program

Yugantar Film Collective, Molkarin (Maid Servant), 1981, 25 min
Center for Spatial Technologies in cooperation with Forensis & Forensic Architecture, A City Within A Building, 2023, 21 min
cinéma copains in cooperation with pátio vazio, urban solutions, 2022, 30 min

Presented by Enar de Dios Rodríguez and Olena Newkryta (in English)

Enar de Dios Rodríguez is a visual artist interested in demonstrating how economic, sociopolitical, historical, and environmental aspects intersect with each other. Her current artistic research focuses on the politics of verticality, investigating both aerial and subterranean spaces.

Olena Newkryta (Ukraine) is a Vienna-based artist and curator whose research-based practice is situated between cinema and exhibition space. In her artistic work, she develops films and installations that explore the relations between forms of marginalized labor, technological infrastructures, strategies of exploitation in contemporary capitalism and gestures of resistance.

The Golden Pixel Cooperative is a Vienna-based association for moving images, arts and media, active within both exhibition and cinema contexts. It was founded from the need to act collectively in a predominantly individualistic cultural landscape.
 

Further dates: May 14 (Framing Collective Action: Street) and June 4, 2025 (Framing Collective Action: Land). Booking options will be published shortly.