Pirate Boys (dir. Pol Merchan, 2018)

"Turning, Turns" was a screening cycle curated by Maggessi/Morusiewicz for Blickle Kino, the development of what we originally conceived as a single-serving screening in the context of "The Poiesis of Composting" (Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Vienna, 09.10.2021–22.02.2022). Featuring short films by invited filmmakers and visual artists, the screenings demonstrated our agenda of generating an ongoing and collaborative discussion about the medium of film, with the focus on employing it 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 proposed a different “turn,” through which to think “of”, “on”, and “with” about the selected film practices. This cycle consisted of four screenings: 

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