Archive and the land reveal other ways of seeing, ensuring that what is meant to survive cannot be erased. Truth lives in memory, inquiry, and the faces of the young, where the hubris and shame of colonizers and oppressive regimes are quietly, unmistakably inscribed.
This short film program includes the following films:
A Dream Pointing to Aadchit
Ghinwa Yassine, Canada/Lebanon (18 min)
Haunted by a recurring dream, director Ghinwa Yassine returns home to find her memories changed by war.
Between Us and the World
Wallace Minchong Li, UK (17 min)
Young friends revisit the site of archival colonial footage, the place where they live and dream in Western Sahara.
Together
NEOZOON, Germany (14 min)
Early visions of togetherness are contrasted with the rise of individualism, questioning the urge to possess and protect.
Golden Island
Arief Budiman, Indonesia/Singapore (23 min)
Arief and Edi exchange photoshopped memories of Papua, constructing utopian illusions of the land.
Ghazal-E Sorkh
Maryam Tafakory, Iran/UK/France (19 min)
A personal recollection of betrayal built on fragmented films, commissioned by the Shah.
The Recce
Daniel Mann, UK/Germany (16 min)
Exploring cinema’s ties to land and its entanglement with colonial imaginaries binds the fiction of filmmaking to the fiction of state-building.
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MODES 1
Archive and the land reveal other ways of seeing, ensuring that what is meant to endure cannot be erased.
MODES 2
At the intersection of culture, technology, and capital, a yearning for human connection and the possibility of release endures.
MODES 3
Interior worlds reveal wisdom, intuitive connections, the esoteric, and death. Or is it liberation? A bid to commune with the feminine, other realms, and ghosts.