VIDEOKOPPI | 2.9.-19.9.2023
Statement
I shot If There Is No Struggle with a 1965 Canon Scoopic 16mm camera in the neighborhood where I grew up and still live. The film title comes from an 1857 Frederick Douglass speech: “if there is no struggle, there is no progress”.
Artist Bio
Jared Katsiane is an award-winning filmmaker born in Boston, U.S. His 16mm films and videos have screened at 575 international festivals, including Clermont-Ferrand, Rotterdam, and FESPACO; in museums and galleries; and broadcast on television.