Bodies Assembling consisted of 10 film screening events happening over 9 days each reflecting personal projects, responses and ideas relating to the films and videos distributed by Cinenova. Over the course of the screenings we covered a whole range of topics including the contemporary media representation of HIV, the creation of the image of women, the transgendered body and the affect of watching political film from the 1980s. Moments of history were brought to the fore by presentations of the first four films acquired by Circles (the fore-runner to Cinenova) presented by Felicity Sparrow and generations mixed in a screening of four 16mm films chosen by Kerstin Schroedinger which were screened after a hasty induction to the projector as the audience were then asked to take responsibility for each film. Through a mixture of screenings, discussions, interviews and performances relationships to the material distributed by Cinenova was revisited, recontextualised and new relationships and understandings formed through the temporary Cinema.

Kerstin Schroedinger’s 16mm workshop.

Felicity Sparrow introduces the screening ‘Her Image Fades as Her Voice Rises’.