Book launch ~ 4 October 2026

A Cut Through The Screen – Struggles‘ Reverberations in Cinema

This book launch will present A Cut Through The Screen – Struggles‘ Reverberations in Cinema, a publication that came out of the 7-year trajectory of the Curating Positions COOP, a study group, in cooperation with Bulegoa z/b and led by Marwa Arsanios, Leon Filter and Leire Vergara, which has been 'roaming' along with the Dutch Art Institute between 2018-2025.  

The Book provided a form of continuation for the conversations taking place in the study group, insisting on a steady articulation of questions around films and images and how to think and practice with them.

The proposition to make a cut through the screen brings attention to the outside of film, to the infrastructure that sustains it and to the material formation of its images. This book compiles voices that account for different ‘cuts through the screen’, what they enable and how they expand the cinematic space as well as the film projected onto it. When thinking about struggles and how they appear in cinema, the cuts allow to think about their reverberating character. The cuts are educational, making openings to consider the life and theory that happen around it. They are artistic, leading to proposals for productions of collective artistic works. A Cut Through the Screen: Struggles’ Reverberations in Cinema, is a continuation of a process that aims to use these openings to find connections and resonance.

Edited by Marwa Arsanios, Leon Filter and Leire Vergara

Visual Concept by Ian Clewe

Published by  ARCHIVE BOOKS

Commissioned by Gabriëlle Schleijpen for the Dutch Art Institute (DAI)

With contributions by Gabriel Acevedo, Olfa Arfaoui, Asmaa Barakat, Sara Benaglia, Egle A. Benkunskytė, Saverio Cantoni, Jamie Donald, Savva Dudin, Areumnari Ee, Kodwo Eshun, Miiel Ferráez, Tomer Fruchter, Iñaki Garmendia, Vinita Gatne, Daniël van der Giessen, Jan Pieter ‘t Hart, Louis Henderson, Nadja Henß, Leo Hugendubel, Dorothy Hunter, Ilze Kalnbērziņa-Praz,  Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Till Langschied, Claudia Medeiros, Karolin Meunier, Dina Mohamed, Vera Mühlebach, Anastasia Nefedova, Ian Nolan, Ruth Noack, Yen Noh, Alejandra Riera, Ghalya Saadawi, Anna Piroska Toth, Grant Watson, Isabelle Weber, Tara White, Clarer Winter, Görkem Baha Yalim, Zane Zajančkauska, Weronika Zalewska and Henriks Zegners.

CONTRIBUTORS WHO ARE JOINING APRiCot GARDEN 2026: If Not Here, Then Where? are welcome to pick up their free copy at Kiosk Rotterdam, present at BAK basecamp throughout the symposium.

A Cut Through The Screen – Struggles‘ Reverberations in Cinema

A Cut Through The Screen – Struggles‘ Reverberations in Cinema

ISBN 978-3-912226-00-3
388 pages
Softcover                                                                                                                                                 25 euro