The series of conferences, developed within the framework of the research project Animated Images, Controversial Memories [CINEMAF], engages in an artistic reflection on the issues of remediation, analysis and reuse of filmic materials produced in controversial historical contexts. Conceived as a space for exchange between artists, curators and scholars, it explores the gestures and artistic forms through which
the material traces of colonial history are sketched out and reformulated.
This year, the seminar shares the artistic research experimented with autochromes and films shot by Father Francis Aupiais and Frédéric Gadmer in Dahomey in 1930.