Admission:
General $10
Student $7
March 13, 2025, 7pm
172 Classon Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11205
USA
Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Thursday, March 13 at 7pm for a screening of It Can’t Be That Nothing That Can Be Returned (2022), a film by Dana Kavelina, accompanied by video remarks from the artist.
In a speculative world, the citizens of the utopian future work to understand the origins of past violence by constructing an advanced computational model of history. As an act of radical historical justice, they decide to resurrect all those who perished in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Yet, the process reveals that restoration alone is not enough—true healing requires a collective confronting of trauma. In response, society embarks on an extended process of shared grief, gathering and disseminating personal memories of war and loss. Through a combination of animation, archival imagery, and speculative narration, Kavelina interrogates the limits of historical repair and the ways in which grief itself becomes a communal form of resistance.
Dana Kavelina, It Can’t Be That Nothing That Can Be Returned (2022, 52 minutes)
In this digitally rendered speculative future, the dead from the war on Ukraine are given the choice to live again—to reckon with past trauma. Painful memories can be removed and archived to a living monument, revisited with an emotional distance; full memory immersion for perpetrators ensures they never forget.
For more information, please contact program [at] e-flux.com.
Accessibility
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program [at] e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the event space and this bathroom