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Thursday 02-Jul-2009

The first in a series of artist's film and video screenings at IMT in collaboration with Filmarmalade; a screening of 'Preemptive Disappearance' by Francisca Benitez

Francisca Benitez’s ‘Preemptive Disappearance’, describes the effects of the Patriot Act on artists living in New York as told through the tender recounting of the experience of someone who discovers, when returning home one day, that her husband has been arrested for taking photographs ‘in the wrong place’. Benitez’s film slowly draws us into the emotional turmoil and sense of loss that is felt when someone close to you disappears and allows us a powerful and dramatic insight into the personal insecurity suffered by many people after 9/11.

The screening will include an interview with Francisca Benitez by Katie Guggenheim and Dan Smith, specially commissioned by Filmarmalade’s curator Gordon Shrigley. ‘Preemptive Disappearance’ is published by Filmarmalade as a limited edition of 50.

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  Art Medium:

  Video

  Art Period:

  Contemporary (1965-today)

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  Public Gallery

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  IMT is a cutting-edge contemporary art gallery on Cambridge Heath Road in Bethnal Green, London. The vision of the gallery is to stage challenging and ambitious exhibitions, specific to the gallery, complemented with talks by artists, curators and critics. IMT was established to encourage innovative ideas and practices and promote artists who tackle concerns at the heart of contemporary culture.

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