Projet Betula is excited to announce the first Open Call for the 2025 edition of our Screening Series. This year's theme Speak Volumes invites artists and filmmakers to submit experimental films, videos, and moving image works that explore concepts of memory and haunting — both personal and collective

In Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, Avery Gordon proposes that ghosts are not imaginary but real traces of what was meant to be erased. Haunting in this context serves as a medium through which historical trauma, social injustice, and personal loss continue to manifest, expressed through gestures, language, dreams, and embodied memory

We approach memory not as a chronology or fixed archive, but as a force that moves through the everyday. It does not always arrive through narrative or logic. At times it appears as interruption — a gap, a silence, a return. It becomes a space where the personal and political, the intimate and structural, the internal and historical intersect. These aspects cannot be separated from one another

Speak Volumes is an invitation to reflect on these returns. We are interested in works where the past does not unfold as a reconstruction but rather breaks through — where visual language addresses what resists narrative: the fragment, the glitch, the pause, the repetition, the slip

We are not seeking resolution. Instead, we are looking for attentiveness — to what slips through the margins of official history but continues to shape how we see, feel, and speak. Speak Volumes is a space for works where the past insists on being heard