Pirate Boys (dir. Pol Merchan, 2018)

"Turning, Turns" is a screening cycle curated by Maggessi/Morusiewicz, one that focuses on filmworks (short cinema films, mostly) by researching visual artists with the agenda of generating an ongoing and collaborative discussion about the medium of film, as it is employed as a reorientation technology. Drawing from Sara Ahmed’s book Queer Phenomenology (2006) and its proposal of a queer gesture of “turning the tables”, each episode of the cycle proposes a different “turn” through which to think “of”, “on”, and “with” about the selected film practices. This first episode features four films that present the inner lives of their narrators through a series of inward moves, attending to their grief, trauma, and memory. In 2022–2023, the cycle featured four screenings: 

• “Edit Affects” (16.01.2022, including: Rebecca Jane Arthur, “Liberty: an ephemeral statute” (2020), Lydia Nsiah, “to forget” (2019), Masha Godovannaya, “I Can Only Describe a Landscape” (2015), and Anna Spanlang, “Cereal” (2021);
• “Turning Inwards and Back” (02.03.2023, including: Felix Klee "Homesick Lungs“ (2021), Huda Takriti “**A Storytelling; I only wish to be there…” (2016), Megan-Leigh Heilig “Engulfed” (2021), and Aykan Safoğlu “ziyaret, visit” (2019);
• “Tables, Turning” (15.06.2023, including: Hogan Seidel “The Backside of God” (2020), Pol Merchan “Pirate Boys” (2018), Jacques Simha, “Rosa Kairo” (2020), and Marie Luise Lehner “Mein Hosenschlitz ist offen. Wie mein Herz.” (2022);
• “Turning Image, Imaginaries” (13.12.2023, including: Mirelle Borra, “Safe Space" (2021), Nathália Oliveira, “Sei que tudo é memória" (2021), Manuel Embalse, “Encyclopedia Catalog” (2020), and Maxime Jean-Baptiste, “Nou Voix” (2018).