Curated by Inge Coolsaet for argos, the short film programme “Sensitive Content” probes the uneasy politics of visibility in a world rocked by mass unrest and censorship, where the abundance of irrefutable evidence clashes against technologies of repression. Since the advent of the smartphone in the early 2010s, the camera has become a cyborgian extension of the body. We no longer rely solely on professional journalists to document war and conflict; rather, the masses making history are the ones making its images, risking their lives to construct a diffuse online network of counter-narratives.
