Events
For each in-person event we do our best to bring you a selection of shorts available to view on our website. This usually happens after the event when we open up our online Screening Room.
Previous events
10 June 2023: F(r)ictions with The 87 Press at Camden Art Centre
This curation, in collaboration with The 87 Press, pulls from themes of poetry and film as text. Through the four different works we can identify motifs of dance, movement, and film as a tool of uncovering.
Line-up:
• Breathless Puppets by Naaman Azhari
• Volana’s Eclipse by SJ Rahatoka
• Trans Performance Exchange Volume 5 by Emma Frankland and Tamarra
• Night Vision, Limited Access by Andro Eradze
26 April 2023: F(r)ictions x Left Bank
On 26 April Leftbank co-hosted a short film programme with F(r)ictions, co-curated by Marina Georgiou and Anuka Ramischwili-Schäfer.
After months of conversation about postcolonial space, land and borders, construction of nationhoods, cultural identities, work and production, intimacy and DIY making, food diaries, navigating and tending to desire in a capitalist world, escaping and remaining: F(r)ictions have selected experimental and DIY short films from artists whose practice is connected to West Asia and the Mediterranean, to exist together at an open air, informal evening screening and to continue these conversations.
Line-up:
• Raw Matter by Lika Tarkhan-Mouravi
• A State in a State by Tekla Aslanishvili
• Zoi (at PA.SY.D.Y. Hill / Ancient Ledras Park) by Maria Toumazou
• walking before by Anuka Ramischwili-Schäfer
• Narlık Sokak [pomegranate street] by Florenza Deniz Incirli
• Glasses Crack, Tablecloths Splinter by Anna R. Japaridze
• Προσπαθω να φανταστω (I’m trying to imagine) by Orestis Lazouras
• I Have Sinned A Rapturous Sin by Maryam Tafakory
11 June 2022: F(r)ictions with The 87 Press at Camden Art Centre
As part of the Long Song For Summer poetry festival hosted by The 87 Press, F(r)ictions curated six short films that screened as an installation in the café of Camden Art Centre. The films played on loop, with a thematic link to poetry: all films dealt with the breaking of temporal norms and meditations on language. We screened work by Gonçalo Lamas, Tekla Aslanishvili and Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Anuka Ramischwili-Schäfer, Sarah Al-Sarraj, Lika Tarkhan-Mouravi and Edmund Hardy.
We also provided an online selection in our Screening Room for those unable to attend the event in person.
April 2022: F(r)ictions spotlight on Michał Bolland’s ‘7th of August’
'A homophobic tsunami engulfed Poland in 2020. Vilified by the ruling political party, the LGBT community became the target of an intense campaign supported by the church and public media. The wave crested on August 7, when the community said enough, demonstrating on the streets of Warsaw in defence of an activist Margot.’
21 January 2022: F(r)ictions x T A P E at London Short Film Festival
In January F(r)ictions put together an experimental short film programme in collaboration with T A P E collective at the London Short Film Festival. The programme screened on Friday, 21 January, at Bethnal Green’s Four Corners. This selection of short films is a small look into the varied works F(r)ictions has hosted over its three years: micro short films, documentaries, essay film, collage works, still image sequences, videos shot on cell phones. You will find themes of collage, touch, resistance and displacement.
F(r)ictions .6 Summer Programme
August 2021
Our Summer Programme screened over the course of September. We hosted a wonderful selection of filmmakers and artists throughout our digital screening. Consider donating in order to keep our programmes running!
F(r)ictions x The 87 Press
August - October 2020
F(r)ictions paired up with The 87 Press to bring you four films across the autumn season, melding video and poetry. The first film by Samra Mayanja, Scripted for a wayward narrator, 'borrows from Saidiya Hartman’s process of 'critical fabulation' (2008), and constructs slow fictional narratives about two members of the artist's family and their cyclical road to death and exile'.
The second installation is a short film by Sarah Gaafar: Let's go to lunch, habibi explores ideas of abandonment, anger and longing through disrupted and fragmented storytelling.
F(r)ictions x Camden Art Centre
June 2020
F(r)ictions x Camden Art Centre's Public Knowledge collaboration presented 10 films over the month of June 2020. This programme explored ideas around generational reverberations, queerness and nature, gender and labour, poetry as film, and more.
The theme for week one was 'Labour, reproduction, repetition' with films by Sam Lanchin, Katerina Mimikou and Rehana Zaman. Week two's theme was 'Motion and time' with Joanne Lee, Nicky Chue and Florence Low, April Lin and Summer M.
The third theme was 'Psychogeographies and Poetics' with Morisha Moodley, Anuka Ramischwili-Schäfer and Edmund Hardy.
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9 December, 2019, DIY Space for London
We hosted our third night at DIY Space for London. We picked up on themes of nostalgia and urban space, bodies in digital worlds versus as part of ‘nature’, returns, departures.
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24 September, 2019, DIY Space for London
Our second night took place at DIY Space for London, with a selection of films falling into themes of layering, collage, archival digging and archival falsification, playing with histories and holding onto and shaking moments.
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26 June, 2019, Flying Dutchman
Our inaugural night screened a wide selection of genres and themes, including a short drama film by Sopo Ramischwili-Schäfer and Malgorzata Sarzynska, a meditative micro film by Sarah Ibrahim, and the beginning of Edmund Hardy’s Negative Worlds.
