Olivier Marboeuf is an author, performer, curator and film producer. He is the founder of the Espace Khiasma center, which he directed from 2014 to 2018 in the Lilas, in the suburbs of Paris. In Khiasma, he developed a program focusing on minority representations and post-colonial situations through screenings, debates, performances and collaborative projects in the north-east of Paris. At Batalha he presents the lecture "De-speaking cinema: a thousand kinds of blue", which moves us to "imagine another cinema before the western machines, forests and lakes produced by the delirious speech, the storytelling and the hallucination. Liquid cities and talkative plants.".

Lecture followed by talk moderated by Margarida Mendes and Almudena Escobar López. Part of the Counter-flows programme.

Free entry upon ticket pickup, on the same day. Limited to two tickets per person.

Curatorial text

De-speaking cinema: a thousand kinds of blue

por Olivier Marboeuf

Imagine another cinema before the western machines, forests and lakes produced by the delirious speech, the storytelling and the hallucination. Imagine places of encounter and alliance of humans and non-humans around fugitive images. Liquid cities and talkative plants.

Without warning, the flow of speech discreetly enters your ears and your skull becomes an inner and warm sea where live islands float, where a glittering pollution and unknown fish with large mirror eyes dance languidly. Your ears can already hear the entangled voices of several rivers and the water now covers your back, hands, thighs and shoulders. You are swimming inside yourself. You are all in the golden flow of what I am telling you. These fragments of images inside your eyes, a thousand kinds of blue, this is our cinema.