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Open Secret is a touring internet cinema and screening series curated by Dana Dawud, rooted in a fluid network of artists with strong online practices, who are looking for (or revealing? or creating?) meaning in the omnipresent and endless stream of images that permeates our lives today. From intimate home videos over advertisements and curated selfies to direct war footage, these are images that are shared with everyone, online, but the proposition of Open Secret is to actually watch them together, physically, on the big screen.
For the filmmakers of tonight, the “open secret” is that all these images and sounds that we encounter daily are important – that they perhaps are worth something true to us. Some films try to reveal the cinema in these images, the kinetic energy, and the shared experience, by cutting and editting them until meanings mutate into something new. Other films were created collaboratively through network connection, motivated by the original potential of (former) internet utopias.
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Screening of 5 short films:
Nounposts (0nty)
RNG Vol. 2 (Redacted Cut, 2025)
Monad (Dana Dawud, 2024-ongoing)
Comedy Special (Mischa Dols)
Palcorecore (Dana Dawud, 2023)
more info soon
