raised in the institution of dreaming

The world has lost its magic. In their lecture-performance, filmmakers Taymour Boulos (Lebanon) and Farah Hasanbegović (Bosnia and Herzegovina) use the language and mythology of films to figure out if any magic remains hidden in cinema — and how we can save it from the void.

Through archival materials, scenes stolen from films and original images, the cinema transforms into a situation room focused on identifying tangible forms of magic in the practice of filmmaking and analysing the gaps that magic once used to occupy. An evening dedicated to figuring out if the world is going to feel a little disappointing forever. If the world was never really magical at all — why did films make it feel like it was?

An hour-long encounter exploring the conscious duty of hope. The performance uses the live voice as a critical instrument, alongside crocheted sculptures and spatial interventions, wrapping theoretical frameworks of capital-induced despair in ‘human feeling speak.’

Made for the EYE Filmmuseum as part of the Programmers of the Future curatorial program, where it was the top-selling event of the week.