In the Court of The Image: A Discussion with Eyal Sivan and The  
Otolith Group
In connection with The Otolith Group: A Long Time Between Suns Part ll

Tuesday 22 September 2009
7 - 9pm
No booking required but places are limited so please arrive early to  
avoid disappointment

The Showroom
63 Penfold Street
London NW8 8PQ
United Kingdom
www.theshowroom.org
020 7724 4300

Transitional justice is the term formulated by legal scholar Ruti  
Teitel for tribunal processes which investigate the illegality of an  
overthrown system. The international hearings, commissions and show  
trials that originate from the tribunal have always demonstrated an  
affinity with the moving image because they depend on a public  
audience for their existence; the presence of cameras has already been  
written into their mise en scene. This conversation between Eyal Sivan  
and The Otolith Group takes Sivan's research into the representation  
of the politics of memory as a point of departure for an exploration  
of rarely seen works by Marcel Ophuls, Costa Gavras, Claude Lanzmann  
and others.

Eyal Sivan is a London based filmmaker, producer and essayist and is  
currently Reader in Media Production at the School of Humanities and  
Social Sciences at the University of East London (UEL). Sivan directed  
more then 10 worldwide awarded feature-length political documentaries  
and produced many others. He is the founder and Chief Editor of  
'Cinema South Notebooks' in Israel - a journal of cinema and political  
critique, member of the editorial board of the Paris based publishing  
house 'La Fabrique' and member of the editorial board and columnist at  
the French social studies journal 'De l'autre Côté'. Among Sivan's  
films are 'Aqabat-Jaber, Passing Through' (1987), 'Izkor: Slaves of  
Memory' (1991), 'Itsembatsemba, Rwanda One Genocide Later' (1996),  
'The Specialist' (1996), 'Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in  
Palestine-Israel' (2003), 'I Love You All/Aus liebe zum Volk' (2004),  
'Faces of the Fallen' (2006) and 'Jaffa, The Orange Clockwork' (2009).

The Otolith Group was formed in 2002 by London artists Kodwo Eshun and  
Anjalika Sagar. Their works have been exhibited in museums and  
biennials worldwide including Tate Britain and The Hayward, London,  
The International Centre of Photography, New York and Documenta 12.  
They are the curators and editors of the exhibition and publication  
'The Ghosts of Songs: The Film Art of The Black Audio Collective', and  
are co-curators of 'Three Early Films: Harun Farocki' at Cubitt (2009)  
and 'Against What? Against Whom?' (2009) in collaboration with Tate  
Modern and Raven Row (2009). The Otolith Trilogy (2003-2009) was  
presented at 'A Long Time Between Suns Part l and ll', their two part  
exhibition, at Gasworks and The Showroom, London, 2009.

The Otolith Group, 'A Long Time Between Suns Part ll'
The Showroom
Until 24 October 2009
Opening hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12 - 6pm







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