Cinema About Many People
Aug. 6, 2026 - Aug. 14, 2026
Locarno Film Festival
The Future (of) Together
Community, Collaboration and Co-presence in Cinema
Shaina A presented a video performance, screenings, and was part of a panel on archives.
Schedule
11th August 2026
BASECAMP AT CASTELLO VISCONTEO, LOCARNO
19:30–21:00
CAMP (Cinema About Many People)
Taking both the "impure art" of cinema and Third Cinema as priors, CAMP traverses
two decades of critical practice to rethink the moving image as a shared infrastructure.
Working across film, broadcast, television, CCTV, archives, software, and networks,
they intervene in every stage of an image's life—from recording and editing to
circulation, exhibition, archiving, and reception—redistributing agency between
people, machines, and publics. This talk asks what cinema can become when it is
made with, by, and about many people, and how such a practice might lay the ground
for collective futures and new possibilities for documentary cinema.
Co-moderated by Jonathan Ali and Flavia Mazzarino.
12th August 2026
CINEMA RIALTO
10:00–12:30
A Common Palimpsest: Rethinking the Archive
How do artists, archivists, scholars reshape authoritative relationships and unsettle
the notion of author and subjectivity? What alternative practices and methods of
transmission can we enact towards a radical collectivisation of knowledge across
different media and temporalities?
With: Shaina Anand (CAMP); Sezgin Boynik, Olexii Kuchanskyii.
Co-moderated
by Flavia Mazzarino and Volker Pantenburg
An Installation for the Future (of) Together: Vis-à-Vis / Twice Told
Museo Casorella, Screening Room
Wed 6.8.
– Thurs 14.8. | 11:00-20:00 |
A changing daily series of audiovisual works by Äsel Kadyrkhanova, Shaina Anand (CAMP), Ursula Biemann, Nitin Bathla & Klearjos E. Papanicolau, Ute Holl & Peter Ott, Rosa Menkman, Hira Nabi, Felix Sobolev set in dialogue with one another, offering space for deeper reflection on the theme of togetherness. Topical threads – a book, a road, microcosms, plants, cable television, algorithms – interweave across different times, geographies, milieus, media and resolutions. Vis-à-Vis / Twice Told invites reflection on what it means to watch, narrate and think collectively: each work brings its own singularity to this cohort of video works, and carries an imprint of the others it meets. Each daily program pairs two resonant works in dialogue, giving togetherness and chorality a formal shape within the installation itself. Each work is told twice, across two screens, within this spatial encounter.
