Triple Canopy Presents: In the Hole

Part of BAM Film 2025 | Curated by Yasmina Price

Cinema is full of holes. The medium was, after all, born through the aperture of a camera and recorded on punctured strips of celluloid. Bodies are also full of cavities, which filmmakers from the French and Italian auteurs of the 70s to contemporary queer artists have used to probe themes of embodiment, sexuality, perversion, and pleasure. As historical portals, holes also take shape in films that reckon with war, trauma, environmental destruction, and collective memory. Guest-curated by Yasmina Price, this expansive collection of cinematic openings and absences marks our fifth collaboration with the ever-fascinating and always subversive Triple Canopy.

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Sam Keogh’s Knotworm (Live) | Saturday 19 April, 7pm

As part of In the Hole, Sam Keogh presents Knotworm, a performance-lecture combining live-feed video, text, and drawing to weave together disparate anecdotes and histories of gentrification, tunneling, sabotage, and ecology. Originally commissioned for the 15th Lyon Biennale in 2019, Knotworm was an installation of sculpture, collage, and video proliferating around the base of a colossal tunnel boring machine known as a “worm.”

At BAM, Keogh revisits this work, regurgitating its elements into a newly convoluted network of associations that twist, coil, and fold around one another like the worms, roots, and tunnels depicted. In this dense aggregate of of information, histories of colonialism are tangled through processes of gentrification—London’s Battersea Power Station is filled with shit, mollusks burrow into the hulls of slave ships, and roots bust through concrete to quietly undermine the foundations of new-build luxury apartment blocks.

Triple Canopy senior editor Ciarán Finlayson joins Keogh in conversation following the performance-lecture.