The Whitechapel Gallery presents four new works for Artists’ Film International, a seasonal programme of film, video and animation chosen by partner cultural organisations from around the world. A recent film commission by Argentinian artist Eduardo Basualdo (selected by Fundación PROA in Buenos Aires, Argentina) titled Eyelids (2014), documents an art installation in Austria of two semi-transparent curtains on the interior and exterior of a window. Moving at different moments, the curtains only offer a glimpse of what lies beyond when they lift at the same time. The artist was interested in how ‘delicate glass is enough for two completely different worlds to exist only millimetres away’. Part of an ongoing collaboration between Canadian and Norwegian artists Tanya Busse and Emilija Ŝkarnulytė (selected by Tromsø Kunstforening in Tromsø, Norway),the film Hollow Earth (2013)

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