Tree Identification for Beginners
In the turbulent summer of 1966, the artist’s mother, a 20-year-old Moroccan student-socialist, was one of some 50 ‘Young African Leaders’ invited on a State Department-sponsored propaganda tour of the USA. In this film, Barrada interweaves events of political history with her own family stories and myths. These ‘sediments of history’ come together here through archives, reports, and journals. The colourful, abstract 16mm stop-motion animation was made with the educational tools that are used for Montessori education.
A Performa 17 commission for Afroglossia, curated by Adrienne Edwards.
Also in this combined programme
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Absent Wound
Transforming public spaces women are prohibited from entering into a stage, Maryam Tafakory’s poetic film depicts the rituals involved in women -
Maskirovka
Layers of stop-motion images edited into a flickering frenzy. Street protesters and soldiers on Maidan Square morph into Kiev’s underground queer and -
Mountain Plain Mountain
Sound and rhythms take centre stage in this observational documentary on Ban’ei, a rare kind of draft horse race that takes place only in Obihir
Film details
- Countries of production
- Morocco, USA
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 35'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
