KHALIDI, Hicham; SARROFF, Amanda (eds.)
Eye(s) Open: New Perspectives on Film Heritage from Colonial Times

Eye(s) Open: New Perspectives on Film Heritage from Colonial Times invites 11 artists to respond to the Eye Filmmuseum’s collection of approximately 2,600 colonial-era films spanning the Dutch East Indies, Suriname, and the Antilles. The artists explore the ethical risks and capacities of engaging with a colonial film archive. From different geographic positions, they examine the role of the camera and moving image in instantiating power. Taking radically differing approaches, they also show how these technologies can be subverted to acknowledge the ruthlessness of these films while honouring the lives of those “captured” in their images and sounds.

With contributions by artists Paula Albuquerque (Portugal/Netherlands), Timoteus Anggawan Kusno (Indonesia), Esther Figueroa (Jamaica), Sabine Groenewegen (Netherlands), Jongsma + O'Neill (Eline Jongsma and Kel O'Neill) (Netherlands/United States), Miranda Pennell (United Kingdom), Jameisha Prescod (United Kingdom), Afrian Purnama (Indonesia), Riar Rizaldi (Indonesia) and Mahardika Yudha (Indonesia).

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Published by NAI010 Publishers / Eye Filmmuseum, 2026
Design by Rose Nordin
Exhibition Catalogues / Film & Video / Indigenous Peoples