Screening Schedule
Screening:
26 September - 26 October 2024
11:00 - 17:00
Wednesday - Saturday
Free Entry, no booking required
FormaHQ, Peveril Garden Studios
140 Great Dover Street
London, SE1 4GW
Artists’ Film International 2024
Solidarity
26 September - 26 October 2024
Artists’ Film International (AFI’24) is a touring programme of fifteen international artists’ films. Collectively curated and presented by fifteen arts organisations across four continents, the programme offers an alternative lateral model which exemplifies non-hierarchical, borderless and collaborative working, cultivates cross-cultural dialogue, and provides wide reaching visibility for artists.
The fifteen films in AFI’24 consider solidarity as a collective form of resistance, togetherness and interdependence, and address the ways in which solidarity is needed, sought and enacted on micro and macro scales. As a body of works, the programme provokes and cultivates radical imaginaries that have the potential to transform our wider, collective experience. For AFI’24 Forma invited UK based Nadeem Din-Gabisi to share his film MASS, which the artist made in London in 2020. 111Each week, Forma will showcase Nadeem Din-Gabisi’s MASS alongside a rotating selection of 3-4 films from AFI’24. These films are organised around broad themes, which do not intend to cover every aspect of solidarity comprehensively. Instead, the thematic groupings highlight loose connections among the contributions from each partner involved in the programme.
Bahar Arfan, ‘From Guantanamo Prison Until August 15’, 2023. Photo: Wais uddin Mohammadi, Offenbach, Germany. Selected for AFI’24 by Center for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan in eXiLe e.V.
Cassils, ‘Etched in Light: (Washington D.C. Trans Day of Visibility, March 31, 2024)’, 2024. Photo: Ashley J. Mitchell. Courtesy and © the artist. Selected for AFI’24 by LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, USA.
Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, 'we would be freer', 2023. Courtesy and © the artist. Selected for AFI '24 by MMAG Foundation.
Caterina Erica Shanta, ‘En Ausencia’, 2023. Film still. Courtesy and © the artist. Selected for AFI’24 by GAMEeC, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy.
Pinar Öğrenci, ‘Inventory 2021', 2021. Film still. Courtesy and © the artist. Selected for AFI’24 by Video-Forum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin, Germany.
Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas,‘filled up, torn open’, 2022/2024. Film still. Courtesy and © the artist. Supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture. Selected for AFI’24 by Sapieha palace, branch of Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania.
Mary Sullivan, ‘The Fine Line’, 2023. Photo: Mickael Do Couto. Courtesy and © the artist. Selected for AFI’24 by Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
26 September - 26 October
Nadeem Din-Gabisi, MASS, 2020. 13 minutes 27 seconds.
Selected by: Forma, London. Commissioned and produced by Film and Video Umbrella.
26 - 29 September
Reflecting the breadth of AFI’24, these films demonstrate the diversity of voices of who make up the programme. The films address topics such as colonialism, sustainability, transgender rights and world-building.
Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, we would be freer, 2023. 8 minutes.
Selected by: MMAG Foundation, Jordan
Cassils, Etched in Light, 2024. 9 minutes 38 seconds.
Selected by: LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles, CA, US
Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas, filled up, torn open, 2022/2024. 8 minutes 51 seconds.
Selected by: Sapieha Palace, branch of Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius.
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2 - 5 October
The films screened this week explore diverse narratives of intersectional feminism, highlighting the struggles and resilience of women across different cultural and historical contexts — from Saulter’s exploration of Black female identity in relation to place and class, to Afran’s critique of Taliban oppression of Afghan women, and Rakić’s examination of women’s emancipation in post-war Yugoslavia through the lens of the Anti-Fascist Women’s Front.
Maud Sulter, No Oxbridge Spires, c. 1989. 10 minutes 48 seconds
Selected by: Tramway, Glasgow
Bahar Arfan, From Guantanamo Prison Until August 15, 2023. 3 minutes 51 seconds.
Selected by: Center for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan in Exile e.V
Milica Rakić, Red if you did not exist we would have to invent you, 2021. 20 minutes 9 seconds.
Selected by: Cultural Center of Belgrade, Serbia
9 - 12 October
Delving into urgent environmental and sustainability issues, the films this week address the politics of natural resources and the fragility of ecosystems. Shanta’s En Ausencia critiques the privatisation of water in Mexico City and its impact on communities, while Land Bodies, Decomposing Mass by Bjørnaali, Simmons, and Lanzmaier uses innovative technology to explore the delicate balance of peatlands, emphasising the need to view natural landscapes as sources of life rather than mere resources.
Caterina Erica Shanta, En Ausencia, 2023. 26 minutes 37 seconds
Selected by: Selected by GAMeC, Bergamo
Ingrid Bjørnaali, Maria Simmons & Fabian Lanzmaier, Land Bodies, Decomposing Mass, 2023. 22 minutes 33 seconds
Selected by: Tromsø Kunstforening
16 - 19 October
Exploring the often-overlooked dimensions of labour and solidarity, these films highlight the resilience and struggles of marginalised workers. Sullivan’s The Fine Line offers a poignant reflection on the unrecognised contributions of women in island nations. In contrast, Sunder’s Ghost Cut – Some Clear Pixels Amongst Many Black Boxes investigates the precarious world of remote workers on platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk, critiquing how their labour fuels AI.
Mary Sullivan, The Fine Line, 2022. 4 minutes 10 seconds.
Selected by: Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
Aarti Sunder, Ghost Cut – Some Clear Pixels Amongst many Black Boxes, 2023. 20 minutes 7 seconds.
Selected by: Project 88 Mumbai
23 - 26 October
The complexities of migration, displacement, and the movement of people are explored, revealing the barriers and prejudices individuals face. Öğrenci’s Inventory 2021 highlights the anti-racist struggles of migrants in Germany, paralleling the challenges faced by those fleeing repression. In L’ESCALE / THE STOPOVER, Collectif Faire-Part recounts their wrongful detention as Congolese filmmakers during a layover in Angola. Lastly, González’s Dos personas captures a conversation between two individuals overcoming language barriers, who need to emigrate to another country.
Pinar Öğrenci, Inventory 2021, 2021. 15 minutes 56 seconds.
Selected by: Video-Forum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)
Collectif Faire-Part, L’ESCALE / THE STOPOVER, 2022. 14 minutes.
Selected by: argos centre for audiovisual art, Belgium
Lihuel González, Dos personas (Two people), 2018. 25 minutes 52 seconds.
Selected by: Fundación PROA, Argentina
Screening:
26 September - 26 October 2024
11:00 - 17:00
Wednesday - Saturday
Free Entry, no booking required
FormaHQ, Peveril Garden Studios
140 Great Dover Street
London, SE1 4GW