Opening Film: Blind Spot

Introduction by Erika Balsom
Saturday 14.02.26

Blind Spot is the story of a woman who travels to Lyon in search of Flora Tristan, the socialist, feminist activist and writer who stayed in the city months before her death in 1844. Although the film appears to be a fictional narrative, Blind Spot is also a metahistorical project—a cinematic exploration of a feminist approaches to the past.

The screening marks the opening of the exhibition No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image and will be introduced by the curator Erika Balsom. The event is presented in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Norwegen.

About Erika Balsom

Erika Balsom is a reader in Film and Media Studies at King’s College London. She is the author of four books, including After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation (2017) and TEN SKIES (2021), and her writing has appeared in publications including Cahiers du Cinéma, e-flux, Grey Room, and New Left Review.

Her curatorial projects across the cinema and the gallery have taken place at venues including Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Kunstverein Hamburg, Spike Island, MAXXI, TIFF, and ICA London. In 2026, Columbia University Press will publish her criticism collection The Edges of Cinema: Essays on 21st Century Film Culture.