{"id":13258,"date":"2023-02-21T15:01:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T20:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chra.bard.edu\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=13258"},"modified":"2023-03-13T13:28:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T17:28:23","slug":"lonely-trees","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/event\/lonely-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Archival Collective Counter-Imagination, Part 1: The Lonely Trees by Rojava Film Commune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHRA is hosting a screening and discussion on Monday, March 27, 5pm, at Weis Cinema, as part of <i>Archival Collective Counter\u2013Imagination<\/i>, a two-part program curated by art historian and current CHRA Fellow Lara Fresko Madra.<\/p>\n<p>The event will include a screening of\u00a0<i>The Lonely Trees <\/i>by the Rojava Film Commune [Kom\u00eena F\u00eelm a Rojava], with an introduction and discussion with Lara Fresko Madra and Thomas Keenan. <i>The Lonely Trees<\/i> (2017, 43 min) <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is a documentary about the \u201cdengbej,\u201d who carry the heritage of music, poetry, and storytelling in the semi-autonomous region of Rojava.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Archives are often thought of in terms of possession belonging to a family, organization, or country. Calls for the decolonization of museums have been leading the charge in envisioning images, objects, and archives as traces of colonial dispossession. Brushing the archive against the grain, it is possible to listen to its absences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Archival Collective Counter\u2013Imagination<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> brings together two collective endeavors: The Rojava Film Commune based in northern Syria and the Material Aesthetic Research Collective from Turkey and its diasporas think through archives not only in who they belong to, but also how they generate a sense of belonging. In engaging the moving image as a site of negotiation and building collectivity these endeavors are concerned with how they create and re-create past and future community. This program explores the two group\u2019s modes of social organization around the moving image that cross and, at times, defy the horizon of the nation-state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13347\" src=\"https:\/\/chra.bard.edu\/files\/2023\/02\/Rojava-Film-Commune-Lonely-Trees.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/files\/2023\/02\/Rojava-Film-Commune-Lonely-Trees.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/files\/2023\/02\/Rojava-Film-Commune-Lonely-Trees-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/files\/2023\/02\/Rojava-Film-Commune-Lonely-Trees-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/files\/2023\/02\/Rojava-Film-Commune-Lonely-Trees-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHRA is hosting a screening and discussion on Monday, March 27, 5pm, at Weis Cinema, as part of Archival Collective Counter\u2013Imagination, a two-part program curated by art historian and current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1406,"featured_media":9531,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[180],"tribe_events_cat":[100],"class_list":["post-13258","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-spring-2023","tribe_events_cat-screening","cat_screening"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/13258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/13258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13349,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/13258\/revisions\/13349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13258"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=13258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}