“Film festivals can be lonely places, the auditorium also prescribing isolation. My hotel room, its satellite TV, becomes both a friend and the site of private communication, between oneself and oneself, between oneself and the memory of a world. Events unravelling on the English-language news channels are conversations that I am carrying with me during the day, from the television into the auditorium in increasingly bizarre correspondence, like a growing community.” (Ian White, “Palace Calls Crisis Summit,” 2003) 

In this performative lecture, Jordan Lord will show a version of their new short film Concealed and Denied, an archival film without archival footage that concerns how right-wing propaganda weaponises mainstream media as well as documentary film and its funding structures. News that has unfolded since editing the film will interrupt it, as Lord reflects on the liveness of cinema and media access; how a film fundamentally changes based on when, how, and to whom it is a shown; or the porosity between the cinema, the audience, and the news that surrounds them. 
 
The film is open captioned and audio described in English. The lecture will be live captioned and audio described in English. The presentation will also be interpreted in BSL. 

Screening information: Open captioned and audio described, will need time before for tests as live subtitling and ESL interpreting