Announcing: Slow Dissolve
Dir. Library Stack & Andreas Bunte
72nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Official Selection, International Competition
SLOW DISSOLVE a film made in collaboration with Andreas Bunte (@normkiste_grau ) will premiere in the International section of the @kurzfilmtage.oberhausen
The film presents two archives: a repository of prehistoric ice studied for building climate models, and a collection of cinema reels preserving data for a post-apocalyptic future.
Written with @erikvvysocan
Sound mechanics by @adamasnan & @matthew.girard
Color & Post-Production by Benjamin Murray/The Room
Graphics by @chris_l_e_e_
Special thank you to @awiexpedition and Jørgen Peder Steffensen at the Centre for Ice and Climate @university_of_copenhagen
Secession Podcast Artists: Momoyo Kaijima / Atelier Bow-Wow in conversation with Haris Giannouras
By @momoyokaijima@atelierbowow@haris.giannouras@viennasecession
This episode is a conversation between architect and Atelier Bow-Wow-founding-member Momoyo Kaijima and curator Haris Giannouras, recorded in the context of Atelier Bow-Wow's exhibition Suturing Together. The discussion focuses on care work in architecture, books and their forms in designing and understanding the build environment, 1980s Japanese comedy shows, Sutemi Horiguchi, and the importance of love in building someone’s home.
Available on Library Stack
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Simian Podcasts: The Future is Self-Organized: Jennifee-See Alternate, skēnē and f.eks.
By @jennifee.see.alternate@skene_sk@f.eks.platform@ssiimmiiaann
Self-organization, as invoked here, is not a fallback plan for those positioned ‘outside’ the art world’s revolving doors. It is a conscious, persistent, and often precarious methodology – a plan in and of itself.
Available on Library Stack

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A new issue of the newsletter takes us on a journey through the polar science laboratories developing advanced AI models from prehistoric ice core samples and into the underground vault housing reels of data-encoded film in Arctic cold storage:
Collapsing the scientific rituals of future-prediction and the commercial rituals of digital archiving, Slow Dissolve connects two cycles of information: polar ice is extracted to help reveal our climate future, while human data, printed onto film, is buried deep in the Arctic to shield it from the effects of our own damage.
For further research into these topics and titles, visit the accompanying subject guide Source Materials: Slow Dissolve.
Slow Dissolve
Dir. Library Stack & Andreas Bunte @normkiste_grau
Premiering Saturday, May 1 in the International Competition of @kurzfilmtage_oberhausen
Archival digital preservation is built on a cognitive dissonance, wherein data is stored against a catastrophe that the environmentally costly storage effort itself brings into being. How can cinema document or narrate this peculiar condition?
Slow Dissolve presents a close study of two archives: a repository of prehistoric ice used to help formulate climate models, and a collection of cinema reels preserving data for a post-apocalyptic future. Polar ice is extracted to help reveal our climate future, while human data, printed onto film, is buried deep in the Arctic to shield it from the effects of our own damage.
Written with @erikvvysocan
Sound mechanics by @adamasnan & @matthew.girard
Color & Post-Production by Benjamin Murray/The Room
Graphics by @chris_l_e_e_
Special thanks to @awiexpedition and Jørgen Peder Steffensen at the Centre for Ice and Climate @university_of_copenhagen
The New Fascist Body / Der neue faschistische Körper
By Dagmar Herzog, with an afterword by Alberto Toscano
@wirklichkeitbooks
Library Stack is excited to partner with Wirklichkeit Books to present dual English and German digital editions of this urgent title: 
The success of new far-right movements cannot be explained by fear or rage alone – the pleasures of aggression and violence are just as essential. In The New Fascist Body, Herzog connects her analysis of fascism’s libidinous energy with its animus against bodies perceived as imperfect. Only by studying the emotional and intellectual worlds of past fascisms can we understand and combat their current manifestations. 
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The Philosopher Who Predicted Our Post-Literate Art Moment
By @marthaschwendener@benstoppable
Long in the works but now just in time to serve as a guide, Martha Schwendener’s The Society of the Screen: Vilém Flusser’s Radical Prescience, is just out from MIT Press. The Society of the Screen tackles what Flusser’s wide-ranging and experimental body of thought means for art today and how his theories might help us find a way through our media-saturated moment.
Available on Library Stack

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