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Twenty-Two Hours : Solo Exhibition, part of The Film Series, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Khalili, Bouchra LU (2024)
Abstract
Bouchra Khalili – Twenty-Two Hours
23 April–16 June 2024
A key figure in Bouchra Khalili’s film installation “Twenty-Two Hours” is Jean Genet, the French writer and political activist, who came to the United States between March and May 1970. He was there at the invitation of the Black Panther Party founded in 1966.
In Khalili’s “Twenty-Two Hours”, Quiana and Vanessa, two young African-American women from Cambridge (USA), examine Genet’s visit to New Haven. As much storytellers as film editors, the young women combine fragments of images, sounds, stories, and film footage, to tell the story of Genet’s commitment to the BPP. Simultaneously, Doug Miranda, a former prominent member of the BPP who was involved in organizing Genet’s... (More)
Bouchra Khalili – Twenty-Two Hours
23 April–16 June 2024
A key figure in Bouchra Khalili’s film installation “Twenty-Two Hours” is Jean Genet, the French writer and political activist, who came to the United States between March and May 1970. He was there at the invitation of the Black Panther Party founded in 1966.
In Khalili’s “Twenty-Two Hours”, Quiana and Vanessa, two young African-American women from Cambridge (USA), examine Genet’s visit to New Haven. As much storytellers as film editors, the young women combine fragments of images, sounds, stories, and film footage, to tell the story of Genet’s commitment to the BPP. Simultaneously, Doug Miranda, a former prominent member of the BPP who was involved in organizing Genet’s tour on the East Coast, narrates his meetings with Genet and his own dedication to the Party.
“Twenty-Two Hours” asks the question “Who is the witness?” Is it Genet who stated that he came to the U.S. to bear witness to the repression suffered by the Party? Is it Doug Miranda bearing witness to the struggle for liberation to which he dedicated himself? Or is it Quiana and Vanessa who commit to calling the ghosts of emancipatory history? (Less)
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  abstract     = {{Bouchra Khalili – Twenty-Two Hours<br/>23 April–16 June 2024<br/>A key figure in Bouchra Khalili’s film installation “Twenty-Two Hours” is Jean Genet, the French writer and political activist, who came to the United States between March and May 1970. He was there at the invitation of the Black Panther Party founded in 1966.<br/>In Khalili’s “Twenty-Two Hours”, Quiana and Vanessa, two young African-American women from Cambridge (USA), examine Genet’s visit to New Haven. As much storytellers as film editors, the young women combine fragments of images, sounds, stories, and film footage, to tell the story of Genet’s commitment to the BPP. Simultaneously, Doug Miranda, a former prominent member of the BPP who was involved in organizing Genet’s tour on the East Coast, narrates his meetings with Genet and his own dedication to the Party.<br/>“Twenty-Two Hours” asks the question “Who is the witness?” Is it Genet who stated that he came to the U.S. to bear witness to the repression suffered by the Party? Is it Doug Miranda bearing witness to the struggle for liberation to which he dedicated himself? Or is it Quiana and Vanessa who commit to calling the ghosts of emancipatory history?}},
  author       = {{Khalili, Bouchra}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{Moderna Museet, Stockholm}},
  title        = {{Twenty-Two Hours : Solo Exhibition, part of The Film Series, Moderna Museet, Stockholm}},
  year         = {{2024}},
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