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Short Films | The Lab x Goldsmiths
Thursday 2nd March 2023 , 7:00pm to 10:00pm
In collaboration with Goldsmiths Visual Anthropology graduates, The Lab is hosting an evening of four short films.
The films featured are concerned with a variety of themes from an array of cultural settings such as grief, pilgrimage, heritage, colonialism and spirituality.
Come to the screening to meet the filmmakers and discuss their process, inspiration and experience.
A Screening of Four Short Films | Programme
Awen, May We Be by Vicky Polak (19m17s)
The film investigates pilgrimage as a ritual practice alongside druids, pagans, wiccas, bards and people who are interested in sharing ancient stories on sacred land. It is a journey with sonic landscapes across England.
The Skin of The Earth by Morgan Senior ()
A poetic and personal exploration of the human and ecological traumas of British Colonial rule in Barbados, and the lingering connections between the islands. The film follows the filmmaker’s mother and uncle as they explore Barbados and reflect on their connection to the land.
L’Ombra Di Rasputin by Pietro Pingitore (26m47s)
Whereas nature is a dimension created by western philosophy, wilderness is the shadow of human architectures. This film is a sensorial exploration that looks at human and non-human entanglements as infrastructures bordering the “wild life” of the plains surrounding Piacenza, one territory amongst the many heavily transformed by industrial agriculture.
In the Places Where We Left and Arrived by Samuel Zhang (20m25s)
This project revolves around the subject of Queer Chinese Diaspora, starting from a personal journey and expanding to a shared experience in a wider social context. Queer identity intertwined with diaspora implies the concept of home that is being problematised not only by ethnocultural-identity transformation in transnational movement/immigration, but also by the rejection experienced in the home country when identifying as queer. The reality for people who are marginalised either culturally, geographically, or socially, is always a state of exile.
