The Zapruder Effect. Four Investigations

Artists: Emmanuel Licha, Miles Rufelds, Susan Schuppli, Sanaz Sohrabi Curator: Marie J. Jean, Director VOX, centre de l'image contemporaine, Montreal (CA) The Zapruder Effect, a special exhibition at the n.b.k. Video-Forum, explores how artists draw on archives, imaging technologies, and investigative methods to bring to light political, historical, and environmental realities that have remained outside the frame. Four films by Emmanuel Licha, Miles Rufelds, Susan Schuppli, and Sanaz Sohrabi – ranging from documentary investigation to parafiction – put the image to work, examining, cross-checking, and reconfiguring the traces through which facts come to be written. In parallel, VOX presents the three-part screening series INFRASTRUCTURES in Montréal, curated by Anna Lena Seiser, with works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum collection, from October 15, 2026 to May 22, 2027. A joint project by VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, Montréal, and n.b.k. Video-Forum, Berlin, with the support of the Goethe-Institut Montréal and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.