filming futures

HOUSEWARMING
This spe­cial cura­tion in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Emer­gent Futures CoLab (@emergentfutures) unfolds a new mode of making and view­ing films. Blur­ring the bound­aries between fic­tion and non-fic­tion, this selec­tion of films pushes us to attend to the process­es, ethics, and aes­thet­ics of impro­vi­sa­tion and col­lab­o­ra­tion. This move­ment - a new era of film­mak­ing lay­ered with mul­ti­modal­i­ty - invites us to engage with com­mu­ni­ties that are imag­in­ing and film­ing pre­ferred futures around the world. Not only do these films center rad­i­cal hope and build upon the play­ful­ness of ‘ciné-provo­ca­tion,’ but they also prompt us to act urgent­ly in the face of rising local and global threats of all kinds. These films push us to engage with and mobi­lize alter­na­tive ped­a­go­gies of imag­i­na­tion to cope with colo­nial­ism, cap­i­tal­ism and cli­mate change on an indi­vid­ual and com­mu­ni­ty level. Curat­ed by Rajat Nayyar & Rana El Kadi (EFC) I. Hopepunk This ‘ethno-fic­tion’ selec­tion is dystopic and yet full of hope and humor. The per­fect ped­a­gog­i­cal dose for coping with colo­nial­ism, cap­i­tal­ism and cli­mate change on an indi­vid­ual and com­mu­ni­ty level. 1. RECLAMATION - TJ Cuthand 2. GARDEN … read more

AGAIN
(Ancora)

Jan Stöckel
Italy 2020 | 13 Min. | engl. subtitled

Wed, 17-May-23 10:30 AM
Q&A with:
Jan Stöckel (via zoom), Rajat Nayyar (EFC), Rana El Kadi (EFC)
14 year old Andrea spends his summer hol­i­days on the Venice Lagoon. His father and grand­fa­ther have been diving and fish­ing sea urchins since decades and now Andrea is at … read more

CALL ME BACK

Johannes Sjöberg
Great Britain 2020 | 28 Min. | engl. subtitled

Sun, 14-May-23 12:30 PM
Q&A with:
Johannes Sjöberg via Zoom, Rajat Nayyar (EFC), Rana El Kadi (EFC)
This ethno-sci­ence fic­tion film fol­lows James Hudson-Wright in dia­logue with him­self in a phone booth out­side his house. James is filmed during 2014-2018 dis­cussing his life and the impact of … read more

HOUSEWARMING

Effi & Amir
Albania 2016 | 33 Min. | engl. subtitled

Wed, 17-May-23 02:00 PM
Q&A with:
Amir Borenstein, Effi Weiss, Rajat Nayyar (EFC), Rana El Kadi (EFC)
In a two-dimen­sion­al dystopi­an land­scape of desert­ed half-built houses in Alba­nia, a new mythol­o­gy is in the making. The film­mak­ers, per­haps a con­tem­po­rary incar­na­tion of Goldilocks from the tale of … read more

IN THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS (Excerpt)

Dara Culhane, Simone Rapisarda Casanova
Canada 2021 | 30 Min. | engl. subtitled

Sun, 14-May-23 12:30 PM
Q&A with:
Rajat Nayyar (EFC), Rana El Kadi (EFC)
Just before con­di­tions on Planet Earth became unsuit­able for human life, a small group of chil­dren received a mes­sage from a far­away galaxy: an ancient civilization’s plea for notes describ­ing … read more

MUSIC, SOUND, NOISE

Jared Epp
Canada 2022 | 16 Min. | engl. subtitled

Thu, 18-May-23 01:30 PM
Q&A with:
Jared Epp, Rajat Nayyar (EFC), Rana El Kadi (EFC)
A cau­tion­ary tale on the end­less entan­gling of infor­ma­tion shar­ing, social media, mean­ing and daily life, and as well, a satire on the anthro­pol­o­gist as col­o­niz­er of knowledge.  Dr. Carlos … read more

PER VOI OGGI LA LUCE DEL SOLE NON SPLENDERÀ

Andrea Bordoli
Switzerland 2021 | 19 Min. | engl. subtitled

Wed, 17-May-23 02:00 PM
Q&A with:
Andrea Bordoli (via Zoom), Rajat Nayyar (EFC), Rana El Kadi (EFC)
This post-apoc­a­lyp­tic, eco-fic­tion short film fol­lows two con­struc­tion work­ers wan­der­ing in a zone where inte­ri­or and exte­ri­or ter­ri­to­ries are inter­twined. In a con­stant search for traces, they are con­front­ed with … read more

RECLAMATION

TJ Cuthand
Canada 2018 | 13 Min. | engl. subtitled

Sun, 14-May-23 12:30 PM
Q&A with:
Rajat Nayyar (EFC), Rana El Kadi (EFC), TJ Cuthand via Zoom
Ticket (Filming Futures I - Hopepunk)
Live Stream

RECLAMATION is a doc­u­men­tary-style imag­in­ing of a post-dystopic future in Canada after mas­sive cli­mate change, wars, pol­lu­tion, and the after­ef­fects of the large-scale colo­nial project which has now destroyed the land. When Indige­nous people are left behind after a mas­sive exodus by pri­mar­i­ly priv­i­leged white set­tlers who have moved to Mars, the orig­i­nal inhab­i­tants of this land cope by trying to restore and reha­bil­i­tate the beau­ti­ful planet they belong to.

This film will be screened simul­ta­ne­ous­ly at Con­flic­to­ri­um as part of our #Junction_Ahmedabad, fol­lowed by a shared discussion.

TJ Cut­hand grew up in Saska­toon Saskatchewan. He makes films about sex­u­al­i­ty, mad­ness, Queer iden­ti­ty and love, gender, and Indi­gene­ity, which have screened in fes­ti­vals inter­na­tion­al­ly. His work has exhib­it­ed at gal­leries includ­ing the MOMA in NYC, The Nation­al Gallery in Ottawa, and The Walker Art Center in Min­neapo­lis. He com­plet­ed his BFA major­ing in Film and Video at Emily Carr Uni­ver­si­ty of Art and Design in 2005, and his Mas­ters of Arts in Media Pro­duc­tion at Toron­to Met­ro­pol­i­tan Uni­ver­si­ty in 2015. He has per­formed at Live At The End Of The Cen­tu­ry in Van­cou­ver, Queer City Cinema’s Per­for­ma­to­ri­um in Regina, and 7a*11d in Toron­to. He is a Whit­ney Bien­ni­al 2019 artist. He is of Plains Cree and Scots descent, a member of Little Pine First Nation, and cur­rent­ly resides in Toron­to, Canada. He also coined the word Indigiqueer. 

SPA SYBARITE

Joshua Ashish Dawson
USA 2022 | 3 Min. | engl. subtitled

Thu, 18-May-23 01:30 PM
Q&A with:
Joshua Ashish Dawson (via Zoom), Rajat Nayyar (EFC), Rana El Kadi (EFC)
“Cli­mate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st cen­tu­ry.” (Lancet Cli­mate Change Com­mis­sion 2009) This sci-fi short film takes action and drafts a future well­ness par­adise. Taking … read more

SPACE WOMAN
(إمرأة فضاء)

Hadi Moussally
France, Lebanon 2021 | 19 Min. | engl. subtitled

Wed, 17-May-23 10:30 AM
Q&A with:
Hadi Moussally, Rajat Nayyar (EFC), Rana El Kadi (EFC)
Tripoli, North Lebanon. At 64, Maha has just taken her retire­ment from teach­ing. This new life puts her in the face of her lone­li­ness as a divorced woman, whose chil­dren … read more

THE LAST OF ARGANEO

David Vázquez
Spain 2022 | 29 Min. | engl. subtitled

Wed, 17-May-23 10:30 AM
Q&A with:
David Vázquez (via Zoom), Rajat Nayyar (EFC), Rana El Kadi (EFC)
After lead­ing a stu­dent life in Pon­fer­ra­da, the 24-year-old Edil­ber­to Rodríguez decides to return to the moun­tains and ded­i­cate him­self to herd­ing a herd of goats. With the memory of … read more

VICTIMS OF AN ANOMALY

Levente Huszka
Hungary 2022 | 30 Min. | engl. subtitled

Thu, 18-May-23 01:30 PM
Q&A with:
Levente Huszka, Rajat Nayyar (EFC), Rana El Kadi (EFC)
Caused by a dimen­sion anom­aly, mil­lions of people have exchanged places with their alter egos from par­al­lel uni­vers­es. A few years after, the Anom­aly Foun­da­tion was found­ed to inte­grate new­com­ers into … read more

WHEN SLEEP ENFOLDED HER

Amina Abouelghar, Grégoire Verbeke
Belgium, Egypt 2022 | 10 Min. | engl. subtitled

Sun, 14-May-23 12:30 PM
Filmgespräch mit:
Rajat Nayyar (EFC), Rana El Kadi (EFC)
Under a full moon in an arid moun­tain land­scape a young woman wan­ders and reach­es a dried-out riverbed. She waters a plant and is at one with her silence. When … read more