Auto Italia, in collaboration with Cinenova, presents Bodies Assembling, a series of screenings and workshops featuring moving image work selected by invited artists and activists.

Bodies Assembling strives to facilitate multiple readings of historical works from a contemporary perspective, screening older film and video works from Cinenova’s collection alongside recent artistic and filmmaking practices.

A temporary cinematic site has been constructed at Auto Italia’s space in order to develop a discourse that builds new relationships and knowledge. Engaging with Auto Italia and Cinenova as both organisations and active communities of artists, the programme will express a range of diverse viewpoints on the struggles and feminisms present in Cinenova’s material. Bodies Assembling encourages discussion, collaborative practice and alternative approaches to the production and distribution of culture through film and video. Cinenova is the only women’s film distributor in Europe tracing a feminist film history from the early twentieth century. It is a charitable organisation currently run voluntarily by the Cinenova Working Group.

Bodies Assembling acts as a forum to consider the contemporary legacy of the work distributed by Cinenova, reflecting on the similarities and differences of filmmaking and its various economic and political contexts.