Ghosted: Moveables ∙ Cinema of Spectral Cosmologies (Chapter II)

CinemaO presents a two-day film programme curated by Paula Veidenbauma, as part of CinemaO’s open call for emerging film curators.
About this Event

Ghosted

Cinema of Spectral Cosmologies
Curated by Paula Veidenbauma

1–2 July 2026, 20.00, CinemaO – Via Luigi Cirenei 6A, Milan

Ghosts are everywhere. Conventionally attached to abandoned houses and inherited properties, they also appear in less expected places: on dating apps, in underground garages, at construction sites, along riverbanks, in dreams and nightmares. And ghosts tend to return. Their reappearance in a particular site, often described as haunting, disrupts linear understandings of time and troubles the boundaries between past and present, opening a space for spectral negotiation: was it truly there, or merely a hallucination before the eyes?

Ghosted engages with expanded notions of spectrality in moving image practice. Rather than focusing on the ghost as a visible figure within the frame, the programme considers it as something that holds together that does not fully cohere, and that can also ghost, disappear without notice.

OV Screenings with English subtitles.

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July 2 | Moveables

Erik Bünger - God Moves on The Water - 3 min - 2008

Bo Wang - An Asian Ghost Story - 37 min - 2023 

Kush Badhwar - Work Starts Now - 9 min -  2025

Valentin Degnieau - The fly of the peppered moth - 16 min - 2025

Niklas Feinik - conversation with an angel - 3 min - 2026

After the screening, a conversation with Niklas Feinik.

Moveables (2 July), presented in collaboration with Argos Centre for Audiovisual Arts, Brussels, includes Erik Bünger's God Moves on the Water (2008), a karaoke mash-up exploring two parallel melodies of a sinking ship. Valentin Degnieau’s The fly of the peppered moth (2025) borrows the colours of a sunset to guide viewers into an underground world, while Niklas Feinik's video work conversation with an angel (2026), set in a possibly haunted manor, presents a meditation where memory and dream become indistinguishable, and where the spiritual and supernatural lean in. The programme also features Bo Wang's An Asian Ghost Story (2023), set in Hong Kong. The work departs from a little-known 1965 United States embargo on the hair trade, known as the "Communist Hair Ban". Kush Badhwar video work Work Starts Now (2014) examines the material labour underpinning the production and maintenance of political imaginaries in contemporary India.

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The programme is supported by the Municipality of Milan. The conversation with Ieva Raudsepa is supported by the Embassy of Latvia un Italy. The programme was made possible with the help of Argos Centre for Audiovisual Arts in Brussels.
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About the curator:

Paula Veidenbauma (b. 1997, Riga) is a Vienna-based artist, curator and educator. Her practice, in its different articulations—producing, organising, plotting, making, writing and dancing—engages with project(ed) dramaturgies, the limits of flexibility, speculation, conspiracies and expanded notions of renovation.

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Free entry with annual membership fee (€5). CinemaO is a non-profit space.

Agenda

🕑: 07:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Doors open and light refreshments
🕑: 08:00 PM - 08:15 PM
Introduction by Paula Veidenbauma, curator of the programme
🕑: 08:15 PM - 08:18 PM
God Moves on the Water (Erik Bünger, 2008, 3')
🕑: 08:18 PM - 08:55 PM
An Asian Ghost Story (Bo Wang, 2023, 37')
🕑: 08:55 PM - 09:04 PM
Work Starts Now (Kush Badhwar, 2025, 9')
🕑: 09:04 PM - 09:20 PM
The fly of the peppered moth (Valentin Degnieau, 2025, 16')
🕑: 09:20 PM - 09:23 PM
Conversation with an angel (Niklas Feinik, 2026, 3')
🕑: 09:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Conversation with director Niklas Feinik (In collaboration with Argos Centre)