"A lot of unanswered questions." Alex Reynolds and Robert M. Ochshorn at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge

Created by Alex Reynolds (Bilbao, 1978) and Robert M. Ochshorn (California, 1987), A Bunch of Questions with No Answers (2025) is a twenty-three-hour-long film that records all the press conferences held by the United States Department of State between October 3, 2023, and January 16, 2025, concerning the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

During those encounters, political representatives would often respond with convoluted circumlocutions when different media outlets requested explanations. Thus, what was supposed to clarify responsibilities would devolve into journalists' frustrating exhortations. Reynolds and Ochshorn decided to remove the governmental responses in the final edit. The result is a litany of unanswered questions, a staging of the opacity and simulations deployed by the U.S. authorities in front of public opinion.

The film ends with the last press conference of the Biden administration, just before the temporary closure of the Department due to Donald Trump's inauguration. Again and again, over sixteen months, the same choreography is repeated: after the journalists' statements, the camera cuts to the bust of the state interlocutor, whose gestures become a kind of mute performance, attempting to contain the waves of arguments that remain unresolved.

On one side, we see the theatricalized props of power, filled with highly charged symbolic elements-flags, lecterns with many microphones, geopolitical maps, etc.; on the other, a space reminiscent of a classroom or a parliamentary chamber, from which information professionals provide perspectives and challenge attitudes. Amidst this alternation, which at times becomes exasperating, the impression remains that, as in the tale of Snow White, there is an absent protagonist: the father. Or, put another way, between the multitude of unanswered questions and the strategy of using silence as a response, there is a hidden backstage where every decision is actually managed-a territory veiled from the public and from truth, yet nonetheless clamorous.

Robert M. Ochshorn is an artist, engineer, and cultural theorist based in Brussels and New York. He is co-founder and CEO of Reduct.Video and a researcher at the KASK Academy of Fine Arts. Through collective, collaborative, and correspondent work, he creates software and interfaces that offer new tactility and perspective to media and archives.

Alex Reynolds investigates our forms of relationship as they appear integrated in cinematic language, challenging the conventions of the medium to explore the emancipatory potential of play and refusal. Her work has been exhibited, among others, at the Contour Biennial (Mechelen), the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Beursschouwburg (Brussels), Index Foundation (Stockholm), Hollybush Gardens (London), CaixaForum Barcelona, CA2M (Madrid), and the Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona). Her films have been screened at festivals such as the BFI London Film Festival, FID Marseille, Prismatic Ground (New York), Courtisane (Ghent), and Documenta Madrid. She is a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent.

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