Hannah Dawn Henderson sources images from the archive of Liberty, a UK human rights organisation founded in the 1930s, to paint a picture of mid-20th century UK in the midst of Commonwealth migration and race riots. A personal reflection interrupts the flow of newspaper clippings to question how this history situates us today.
Also in this combined programme
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Non-chronological History
The history of Thai political events since 1932 is reshuffled out of chronological order in this installation with multiple slide projectors. -
Landscape Series #1
A series of mysterious photographs of people pointing into Vietnamese landscapes becomes a commentary on news events in this slide installation. -
Space Station: Rainbow Ihnfinity
A nod to Sun Ra’s obsession with rainbows, this installation places living plants, theatrical furniture and a rainbow mural in an ‘arkestr -
Sedimentation of Memory
This installation examines the caves of Cannerberg, located on the Dutch-Belgian border, which bear traces of its layered history. -
Her Luminous Distance
This installation oscillates between archival images of stars, craters on the moon and under-recognised women scientists in space stations. -
A Man Called Love
A poetic slide installation that intertwines psychic medium Francisco Candido Xavier, Brazil’s race and class relations and military dictatorshi -
Recollections of Long Lost Memories
A present-day hippy finds his way into historical photographs that mark Malaysian history in this humorous slide installation. -
Fossil Locomotion
This flickering installation with multiple slide projectors is a study of motion that activates fossils that have been stationary for millennia.
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
- Language
- no dialogue
