THE VOICE OF THE WET CONCRETE: A CONVERSATION
CARMEN AMENGUAL AND SOYOUNG YOON

E-FLUX NOTES
FEBRUARY 10, 2025

On January 14, 2025, in conjunction with Carmen Amengual’s solo exhibition at Smack Mellon Gallery, e-flux Screening Room presented a single-channel version of A Non-Coincidental Mirror, a film by Amengual commissioned as part of her 2022–2024 Vera List Center for Art and Politics Fellowship. The screening was followed by a conversation between Amengual and the writer Soyoung Yoon and by a Q & A with the audience.

“Making this film was a process—an exercise, really—in learning what it takes to make something, to persist. I worked with scanned and digitized materials, re-performing history. I didn’t study film formally, so in some way the film exhibits my own learning process. I also deliberately avoided replicating or showcasing the aesthetics of Third Cinema, both for financial reasons—many films are lost or poorly preserved, and obtaining rights to show excerpts of these films in mine would be costly—but also because I was more interested in showing what remains and seeing how we can still engage with it today.”

—Carmen Amengual