THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY
- Dates and Opening times
Fri 5 Jun - Sun 11 Oct
Tue - Sat, 10am - 5pm
Sun, 11am - 4pm- Venue
The Hunterian, 82 Hillhead Street, G12 8QQ
- Participants
- Naeem Mohaiemen
- Presented by
The Hunterian, Curated by Dominic Paterson
- Supported by
Commissioned in partnership with Film and Video Umbrella and Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University
- Accessiblity
Level Access, Step-free: The venue has ramped or level access and/or lifts to upper floors
Toilets: The venue has toilets available for visitors, but these are not accessible
Accessible Toilets: The venue has a wheelchair accessible toiletParking: Accessible Parking
THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY revisits the turbulent 1970s, a decade of hopeful rebellions and catastrophic disappointments. For his new film, Naeem Mohaiemen focuses on a flashpoint in time: May 1970, when American students protesting domestic racism and overseas wars were met by state violence.
In the decades since, a memorial community has formed around the “four dead in Ohio”. Yet while the deaths of students Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder at Kent State University are remembered, not many recall Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two students killed by police officers ten days later at Jackson State College, Mississippi, a Historically Black College.
By bringing together archival footage and contemporary ceremonies memorialising the dead, THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY explores the role of memorials as a focal point for individual and collective grief, as well as the ways campus protest has been remembered and commemorated. Though the film is explicitly concerned with events in the United States during the Vietnam War, it is also haunted by our own present, and by cultural politics closer to home.