ARTFAIRPH/Film

Selections from lumbung Film:
"Broken English" by Richard Bell
"A Flower Garden of All Kinds of Loveliness Without Sorrow" by Christian Nyampeta
"Requiem for M" by Kiri Dalena

Three short films were selected from lumbung Film, a repository of film and video works by lumbung members and artists featured in the recently-concluded "DOCUMENTA 15". The films were screened in Kassel during the 100 days of documenta fifteen complimenting and contextualizing the artists' and members' other exhibited works. Since lumbung continues in the aftermath of documenta fifteen, lumbung film is also programmed and screened in the locations of lumbung members. It is one way for the ecosystems of the artists and lumbung members to see each other's work and to continue connecting inter-locally immediately after the exhibition in Kassel.

Program co-organized with RESBAK and Lost Frames.

"Broken English"
Richard Bell
2009, 12 min

In Broken English, Bell centres his attention on what form Aboriginal political empowerment might take, posing the question against the backdrops of a game of chess, a gallery opening and an Australia Day re-enactment of Captain Cook’s landing.

A Flower Garden of All Kinds of Loveliness Without Sorrow
Christian Nyampeta, ARAC (Another Roadmap Africa Cluster)
2018, 28 min

[Subtitled in English]

Fragments of ongoing dialogues between philosophers, artists, translators, comedians, and mythologists about memory, language, learning and practice in the wake of radical ruptures. Recorded in the context of École du soir, the evening programme of the workweek, international meeting and exhibition of the Another Roadmap School for Art Education, of which ARAC is part, held between 27 August 2018 – 1 September 2018 in Huye, Rwanda.

Requiem for M
Kiri Dalena
2010, 7 min

Drawn from the aftermath of the Maguindanao massacre in which multiple journalists were killed, Requiem for M captures scenes from the funerals and the site of the massacre. The footage is played in reverse, in a wistful yearning to turn back time and undo the tragedy that has occurred.