Familiar Traces
Directed by Izzy Mana and Enrico Bellenghi, Familiar Traces is a fashion film narrative which explores the internal pressure that second generation Black British youth face from a young age
Alpha & Omega
Combining audio documentary and photography, Alpha & Omega interrogates God’s will and existence through heard and inscribed conversations with an older matriarch
Event Horizon
Taking the black hole’s point of no return as its inspiration, Event Horizon is a single channel audiovisual piece that explores the bending of light as a signifier of the colossal and divine
I am
I am is a digital art project by Ethiopian artist Lidiya Zelke that explores the surreal process of self-discovery and self-understanding
La Espera
La Espera is an original piano composition accompanied with an original collage artwork by Spanish artist Bea Montero
Stories I Want to Tell
Teatime
A small rainy day poem over a cup of Bengal Spice. With an accompanying multimedia piece by Malak Quota
Tea with Lemon
TEA WITH LEMON (dir. Robert Harrison) is a quirky indie comedy film about a clueless poet/café regular who attempts to charm a waitress by learning her mother tongue. But she is too preoccupied by her failing marriage to notice his futile efforts
When the park is sick
Chinese artist Zihan Ye’s short film is a quirky, miniature and stop-motion filled narrative of going through change
The words that have departed
This two-screen panel installation shows multiple perspectives on a live performance on topics pertinent to khaleeji women
Treatment
A short film on outdated scoliosis treatment
The Anatomy of Perception | تشريح الإدراك الفكري
Blue Marbles
This multimedia project meditates on the connections between the labor and physical materials involved in the production of surveillance camera hardware, data management, and the rituals of documentation, exploring the seemingly “mundane” and “common” aspects of surveillance culture in the use of communication/social media apps to document life
Advent Vista
With custom sound and audio, this series incorporates video taken at various stops along a trip across the Southwestern United States; using Machine Learning neural network, images were strung together to create a series of morphing landscapes, almost as surreal as the landmarks they were made to mimic
走得安樂嗎？
走得安樂嗎？(Did You Leave Peacefully?) is a personal exploration of what it means to die on your own terms. The audio weaves together a recording of Ah Bun, a gymnastics-instructor-turned-quadriplegic who wrote a public letter to the Chief Executive of Hong Kong asking for euthanasia, and Disney’s “I See The Light”
Woman
A film by Ariana Rodriguez, Woman is an intimate, almost visceral account of what it means to be born a woman in a castrating patriarchal system. As an internal monologue, it takes you by the hand through the experience of coming from oppression to freedom, from sleep to awakening
Not All Productivity Is Toxic
Paired with Godefroy Dronsart's audio art and drawing on Marxist theory, our Arts & Culture editor Tom Abi Samra unpacks the desire for productivity: toxic capitalism or self-fulfillment?
DISORIENTED
Italian multimedia artist Giada Rotundo's audiovisual project employs Instagram fashion aesthetics to examine a confused young girl in a technologically disorienting world
Primordial Soup
Two improvised audio pieces by Paris-based artist Godefroy Dronsart that explores noise as an aesthetic
Downward Facing
Enter the studio: a yoga class devolves from tranquil to disturbing for the socially anxious