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A Short Film for Laos is available to watch online from 17 November - 10 December


You can choose between versions of the film with Laotian subtitles or English subtitles. The Laotian dialogue within the film is not translated or subtitled.


You can also watch an excerpt of Dr Stephanie Schwartz's response to the film which followed our in-house screening. To view this, go to the film tabs to the right of the viewing window (above) and then scroll down and click on Stephanie's response.


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Tickets to watch the film are available on a sliding scale. You can refer to our Sliding Scale Guide to help you choose what to pay. Please note that, if affordable, a ticket price of £2 or more allows us to cover our baseline costs for hosting the film securely online. If you would like to book a free ticket, you can do so using the code 'CAMPLE-FREE' at checkout. You won’t be asked for any proof or ID.

After our in-house screening of Alan Sekula's 'A Short Film for Laos' (2006) at CAMPLE LINE, Dr Stephanie Schwartz shared a short response to the film, placing it in context with Sekula’s wider creative practice.


This recording includes two short excerpts from Stephanie's full talk.


Dr Stephanie Schwartz is Associate Professor of American Art at University College London. Her research and teaching address photography and its histories, with a particular emphasis on American documentary. Stephanie is the author of Walker Evans: No Politics (University of Texas Press, 2020) and the editor of Modernism After Paul Strand, a special issue of the Oxford Art Journal (2015). She is currently writing Forgetting Reagan: Allan Sekula’s Documentary for MACK Books Discourse series.