Add to ORKGWe organized this conversation on Oliver Ressler’s film Not Sinking, Swarming (2021) as an exercise in cross-reading the making of a climate protest, which took the form of a four-hour assembly in Madrid in October 2019, in relation to the film camera as a means to join the protest. In documentary, militant, and political film practices of the 20th century, we often follow an essayistic reflection on the camera as a tool to evidence protestors’ direct action and people’s resistance; we have also a history of cinema analyzing the image’s media infrastructures under conditions of war. I’m thinking of works like Harun Farocki’s film Before Your Eyes – Vietnam (1982), which is a continuous reflection on how images from the Vietnam War arrived t...
