The short film portrays Whitney Davis, Professor at UC Berkeley and Distinguished Scholar of the Nomis Foundation, whose work spans art history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and image theory. At its core lies his research on historical image perception – how seeing changes over time, is shaped by culture, and influences our thinking.

The conversation is complemented by an associative montage of key images from human history. This visual layer enters into dialogue with Davis’s ideas, revealing both the function of images as instruments of oppression and their potential for liberation. The film seeks to make his thinking visible.