Thielen Armand does more than tell a story. Defying the hegemony of plot that must move forward at all costs, his gesture lies elsewhere: he uses 16mm film to capture shots that build and create meaning through their interplay. He doesn’t just portray a specific political situation—what happens to that situation within the bodies of these characters? Can silence or the duration of a gaze express what otherwise could not be said, or at least come close to narrating the despair of daily life, even just a little? Political meaning also lies in shaping a specific regime of perception—one in which matter and light, silence and time, are all given space. That too is an act of resistance. Tobias Ramirez