You Had Become Aware of the World of Adult Secrets
How are (hi)stories told that resist official narratives—and what can cinema hold, and what can it not?
The evening opens with a screening of “A Child Already Knows” (2024), Tiffany Sia’s most recent short film. The work appropriates animation footage from the early Mao era alongside the testimony of a child coming into awareness of adult secrets during a time of intense political uncertainty. In her subsequent artist talk—her first in Germany—Sia traces the figure of the child as a method for telling difficult, contested histories marked by shame, disavowal, and political complexity. Drawing on film, literature, psychoanalysis, and documentary theory, she develops a framework for how the child’s suspended, pre-ideological perspective opens space for stories that no nation wants to claim. Free of charge | No registration necessary | The talk will be held in English.