Joshua Olsthoorn

For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform relationships between the body and the camera to propose works that will engage with both perception and embodiment. Could cinema be an art of embodiment? By what rituals and actions could vision become tactile?

A girl wanders like a flaneur in the center of Athens: a Constitution, a War Museum, a Town Hall. She wears sunglasses and black clothes. "Kills" a boy outside the Galaxy bar and describes, sitting on the balcony of an apartment in Exarchia, the way the Molotov bomb is operating - it is an incendiary and not an explosive mechanism, he says.

In a warehouse, sitting on cardboard boxes, one young woman and five young men from different Middle Eastern countries recite fragments of their lives in their own languages. We hear the words of people who are also "stored" or "locked up" indefinitely in Greece.