Over the last decade there has been a considerable shift in artist moving image in exploring the potential of moving image to engage in narratives that are located in the political but that are not expositionary in their form. This is done through subtle aesthetic constructions that intertwine documentary and fictional modes and mobilizing an aesthetics that goes beyond the strictly information based corrective of familiar documentary modes. Instead artist moving-image makers have been exploring the poetic and indeterminate possibilities in creating new documentary forms that are both expressive, reflexive and performative. Artist moving image has also developed a much more sophisticated engagement with the relationship between sound and image: how sound disrupts or brings cohesion to the image and activates different layers in the image. There has also been a significant shift in the ambitions of artist moving image to engage with cinema. This is partially due to technological advances but also the ambitions of artist moving image makers to tackle much more complex constructions of moving image. In a series of seminars there will be screenings and discussions around a range of artists whose work challenges traditional documentary. White Oil, Judy Price Filmscreening 2013, 60 min. (engl. subtitles) Screening followed by discussion with Yazid Anani and Judy Price. 12.06.2013, 16-18 Uhr, Filmhaus im KunstKulturQuartier White Oil explores the stone industry in the West Bank. A single screen film, White Oil recomposes the boundaries between documentary, the cinematic, fiction and testimony. With hundreds of hillsides scarred by over 350 quarries, stone has been termed the ‘white oil’ of Palestine and is perhaps the only abundant raw material capable of supporting a Palestinian economy. However, of the stone and stand excavated 65 percent is expropriated by Israel. Working with security guards and workers, Price excavates personal histories and experiences as well as the changing landscape and conditions of the quarries bringing to bear the myriad losses of land, economy, identity, history and community. Foto: Judy Price, White Oil, 2013