Sinéad Hogan, Lecturer, IADT ARC MA, introduced the work of Jacques Derrida in relation to a politics of statements, trauma and impossibility. Taking as its prompt the theme of ‘remorse’ addressed in Hong-An Truong’s film The Measure of Remorse, 2009, the focus of the talk was on the radical impossibility of an apology. In doing so, this discussion explored some of the points of connection between Statecraft, a research project by IADT: ARC and IMMA’s Art | Memory | Place: Artists’ Films presented in the Project Spaces, 23 Feb – 5 April 2016.