The Limits of Seeing: Images, Noise, and the Unrecorded

We are accustomed to believing that images can document reality. But does what the lens captures encompass the whole world? From film that fails to develop and unrecognizable points of light to sounds dismissed as noise and AI-generated imagery, these eight films explore the distance between images and reality through diverse creative approaches. The camera is not only a tool for recording; it also determines what becomes visible and what remains outside the frame. When memories cannot become photographs, sounds cannot be translated into images, and the boundary between reality and fiction begins to blur, can cinema still offer another way of understanding the world? Taking the limits of seeing as its starting point, this selection reconsiders the possibilities of recording, perception and the moving image.