In a climate where the ruling regime aims to rewrite history to fit its narrative, I would like to preface this program with a few questions.<\/p>\n
What if we were to start by returning to the essence of storytelling?<\/p>\n
What if we were to see that every story is worth telling?<\/p>\n
What if we were to write the truth rather than record it?<\/p>\n
Then, what if we free ourselves to tell stories more imaginatively about anything and using various forms or approaches to storytelling?<\/p>\n
In other words, what if we see subjectivity as a method, and of course without compromising respect for the truth?<\/p>\n
Reading You (Angeline Teh, 2023), L\u2019Mina (Randa Maroufi, 2025), Lion\u2019s wrinkle and Crow\u2019s feet (Juliette L\u00e9onard, 2024), The Flow of Resilience (Pranami Koch, 2024), My Grandmother is a Skydiver (Polina Piddubna, 2025), Apoleon (Amir Youssef, 2024), Last May in Theaters (Arief Budiman, 2025), and Sharp Objects (Taufiqurrahman Kifu, Hattie Wade; 2025) have answered and transcended those questions. Their makers believe that the past is never truly disappear. It is always there, just buried somewhere, like ghosts waiting to be rediscovered.<\/p>\n
These ghosts of the past can be both present and absent. They take the form of fragments in various shapes and sizes: videos or film footage, objects, sounds, faded photographs, written archives, or incomplete and blurred pieces of memory, like ghosts that creep into narratives that are not always chronological and\/or presented as facts.<\/p>\n
The ghosts of the past are presented to us as an attempt to evoke an affectual experience. They are presented not to show what happened in the past as a completely factual truth, but as a way of remembering or feeling the past as truth. Can it then fill the gaps or cracks in the spectrum of the greater narrative and become a counter-perspective to the narrative constructed by those in power? I think this will be inevitable if we manage to arouse the ghosts of the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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