Piotr Cieplak’s new documentary film (Dis)Appear to have its UK premiere this June!
By: Tiffany Jade Murphy
Last updated: Monday, 5 June 2023
Senior Lecturer in Filmmaking Dr Piotr Cieplak’s new documentary film (Dis)Appear (UK, 2023) will have its UK premiere at the Institute of Contemporary Art!
(Dis)Appear is a film about the personal becoming political and about the important role that private family photography can play in the ongoing memory work related to survival, grief and the search for justice. The film follows Gabriel Orge and Ana Iliovich as they return to their hometown and explore what role photography can play when faced with personal and collective traumas of the past. It is a documentary about the powerful relationship between photography, memory and the forced disappearances and systematic murderer perpetrated by Argentina’s most recent civic-military dictatorship (1976-1983).
Previously screened in Argentina this spring, including at the Haroldo Conti Cultural Centre in Buenos Aires and the Hugo Carril Cinema in Cordoba, (Dis)Appear is an output of Piotr's British Academy-funded project, “Intimate Moments, Public Acts: Photographs of the disappeared and memory politics in Argentina”. The UK premiere of (Dis)Appear is taking place at 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London (next door to the ICA) on Saturday 17 June at 6pm, as the closing plenary event of the British Academy’s Summer Showcase. Piotr will take part in a post-screening Q&A.