 Major voices from the art world advance new projects by emerging artists. Discover newly commissioned works by Pathompon Mont Tesprateep and Grada Kilomba, supported with an IFFR grant.

Deep Focus

Major voices from the art world share and discuss their work and advance new projects by emerging artists.

Frameworks

Frameworks: The Acolytes

IFFR 2018

An exploration of everyday racism reveals how much this places the black subject in a colonial setting where s/he once again is reduced to the subordinate, exotic 'Other'.

Plantation Memories: Part II

An exploration of everyday racism reveals how much this places the black subject in a colonial setting where s/he once again is reduced to the  subordinate, exotic 'Other'.

Plantation Memories: Part I

Grada Kilomba places the African oral tradition of storytelling in a contemporary context, recovering the memories and realities of a postcolonial world. Kilomba was awarded a completion grant by IFFR to reconfigure this piece into a single-channel film.

Illusions

With the written word as the only visual element, Grada Kilomba gives a voice to an individual who has been historically silenced by colonial narratives.

While I Write: Act III of The Desire Project

Thai noise musician Thom AJ Madson confines himself in a room for an experiment to give a plumeria tree a sound. He alternates between creating sound experiments and the meditative rhythms of his daily spiritual routine.

Confusion Is Next

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IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Frameworks: The Acolytes

In this combined programme

Confusion Is Next

Illusions

Plantation Memories: Part I

Plantation Memories: Part II

Song X

While I Write: Act III of The Desire Project

Frameworks

Confusion Is Next

Illusions

Plantation Memories: Part I