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: Street

Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 7 pm

Time and again, the street serves as a stage for social struggle. While it is used every day as an infrastructural space, it is only through collective and physical occupation that it becomes a public arena where socio-political demands can be voiced. This is shown in the three short films selected for this program, entitled Street, which span different times and places—from 1983 to 2021, and from Georgetown to Kinshasa and Vienna. The films take varied approaches to dealing with the street, at times performative, documentary, theatrical, or activist. In doing so, they document actions that expose the lasting legacies of colonialism and anti-Semitism while also opening up possibilities for change.
 

Program
Victor Jara Collective, In the Sky's Wild Noise, 1983, 29 min
Collectif Faire-Part, Faire-Part, 2019, 60 min
Künstler*innen Gruppe Schandwache, Schandwache, 2021, 13 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 in the series:

April 30: Framing Collective Action: House
June 4: Framing Collective Action: Land