living in the future of others

Prompted by interwoven structural and personal stresses, artist-filmmakers Henry Bradley, Solveig Qu Suess, and Blanca Pujals started having monthly meetings in January 2022 to share and collectively reflect on their practices. These regular exchanges provided a support structure, nurturing their individual practices and enabling change and mutual influence. In a recent screening and artist talk at the Critical Media Lab in Basel, they decided to intertwine their projects, tracing thematic threads across techno-scientific optics, intergenerational trauma, memory, and modeled futures, rather than displaying individual works. For Rehearsing Retreat, the artist-filmmakers reflect on the method they developed together and how it informs the design and conceptualization of film screenings and presentations.