Programme 12
Time Spy (2015)
Director: Sun Xun
China
Experimental | 10 min
No dialogue
Chimerical images such as a violin with wings come together in this 3D animated film created from thousands of individually hand-carved woodcuts. Hundreds of Chinese art students assisted the director in carving each frame of the film, juxtaposing traditional and analogue illustrations to explore the nature of time and how we try to make sense of it.
Print More Newspapers (2015)
Director: Youngjae Lih
Sweden
Experimental | 8 min
Italian
This work links unconscious mental processes to industrial automation. It explores the different stages of a large manufacturing system, conducting both a mechanical and anatomical dissection that seeks to conceal the abstract movements of the mind that can also be found in the automatic movements of the machine.
Chronoscope, 1952 or 1953, 11pm. (I) (2017)
Director: Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck
Germany
Documentary ǀ 34 min
English
Craftily edited broadcast footage from CBS’s Longines-sponsored public affairs show from the early years of American television covers issues such as the Korean War, the intensifying Israeli-Palestinian crisis and the draft of the United Nations Human Rights Charter.
Tonight's Programme (2017)
Director: Ali Eyal
Iraq
Experimental | 15 min
English
Tonight’s Programme toys with history to construct a new realm that merges Duke Ellington’s 1963 performance at Baghdad’s Khuld Hall with Saddam Hussein’s bloody coup in the same space 16 years later. Eyal creates a fictional space to provide a different history and a different world for the victims in Khuld Hall.
2001: PRESSURE MAKES DIAMONDS (2018)
Director: Kazim Rashid
United Kingdom
Experimental | 13 min
English
2001: PRESSURE MAKES DIAMONDS is a video work exploring the so-called ‘War on Terror’ after the events of 2001 and the destruction of brown and Muslim identities globally. The narrative around second and third generation migrants of South Asian, Middle Eastern and Muslim descent changed forever in that year.
Unexploded Ordnance (2018)
Director: Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn
Canada
Experimental | 30 min
Gan Chinese with English subtitles
Realised during a journey on a cargo ship from Vancouver to Shanghai in 2017, this project explores the realm of the ocean, the lifeblood of the 21st-century economy, and reflects on the relationship between the ocean and the alienation of labour, space-time and representation in our contemporary era.
If I Steal the Sea from You (2018)
Director: Ro Caminal
Spain
Narrative | 16 min
French with English and Arabic subtitles
This film reflects on the material, physical and emotional exploitation of the port of Algiers by French colonial troops, focusing particularly on the Kasbah district of the city. It explores what the Kasbah has represented in the past and present and looks to an uncertain future under threat from globalisation.
Your father was born 100 years old, and so was the Nakba (2017)
Director: Razan AlSalah
Lebanon
Experimental | 7 min
Arabic with English subtitles
A Palestinian grandmother returns to her hometown of Haifa through Google Street View, the only way she can see Palestine today.
Necessity Has No Law (2017)
Director: Ahmed Hamed
Egypt
Documentary ǀ 6 min
Arabic with English subtitles
Fourteen-year-old Gamal does not have dreams and ambitions for the future. He works from dusk until dawn in a brick factory alongside older men who are ready to retire. Sharing the sharp wit and big heart of his compatriots, Gamal offers viewers a glimpse into his life in a small Egyptian city.
As My Father Was (2018)
Director: Muslim Habib
Iraq
Documentary | 14 min
Arabic with English subtitles
Ali, an 11-year-old Kurdish boy, returns to Iraq with his family after being in exile. He embarks on a journey to obtain an Iraqi identity card, which he must have to enrol in school.