Admission starts at $5
February 24, 2024, 3pm
Brooklyn, NY 11205
USA
We are delighted to invite you to parts II and III of a special three-part screening of artists’ films presented by e-flux Film Award and curated by the award’s 2023 pre-selection committee members. This exploration of the forefront of recent artists’ films continues on Saturday, February 24 at 3pm with films by Yuan Zheng, Daryna Mamaisur, and Chulayarnnon Siriphol introduced by pre-selection committee member Lukas Brasiskis; and at 5pm with a screening of films by Alia Ardon and Safdar Ahmed, Sim Hahahah, and Tulapop Saenjaroen, introduced by pre-selection committee member Steff Ling. See details on Parts I, which take place on Thursday, February 22, here.
Films
3pm Screening
Introduced by Lukas Brasiskis
Yuan Zheng, Hepingli Playthrough
China/United States
35 minutes, 2022
Hepingli Playthrough features a fictional world that appears to derive from the recent past or the remote future. The video borrows aesthetics from text-based adventure games once popular in the 1990s. The given “playthrough” structure opens the possibilities of potential interaction between viewers and narrator, bringing together seemingly discrete moments to examine what options remain and what can be let go with the help of a built-in SAVE/LOAD system, wherein it makes visible the process of time travel, remembrance, and amnesia, resonating from crisis to banal, observation to engagement, a dystopia to the chance of a restart.
Daryna Mamaisur, Smoke of the Fire
Ukraine/Portugal
2022, 21 minutes
There is Portugal, there is the Portuguese language, and there is a Ukrainian filmmaker who learns the language and approaches the role of the potential migrant. Between languages, between images from here and those from a country at war, a voice tries to put into words the state of longing.
Chulayarnnon Siriphol, ANG48
Thailand/South Korea/China,
2022, 25 minutes
ANGSUMALIN 48 is the full name of ANG48, which stands for the fictional organization Alliance of Nippon Girls 48. The film is a synthesis of archival materials from Asian film history, from different countries. The result is an intelligent operating system of 48 digits, born into a half-human, half-golden-snail figure. ANGSUMALIN 48 can dissolve and become invisible to human eyes in order to penetrate through the air as a secret cultural agent. ANGSUMALIN 48 women have the role of building connections, spreading good relations, and providing support for the alliance of Asian women in different countries to rise up and release their past pain—from WWII to the Cold War to today. The name of this operating system is chosen to commemorate and give honor to Angsumalin, a fictional character from the Thai novel Khu Kam (1969) by Thommayanti, and an emblem of honesty, loyalty, and love for the homeland.
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5pm Screening
Introduced by Steff Ling
Alia Ardon and Safdar Ahmed, Border Farce
Australia
2022, 15 minutes
Border Farce explores the experiences of Kazem Kazemi, whose love of heavy-metal guitar helped him survive five years of imprisonment by the Australian government as a refugee in the offshore detention center of Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. The film follows Kazem’s musical collaboration with artist Safdar Ahmed and his band Hazeen (featuring Can Yalcinkaya on drums and Kiyan Dayani on bass), in collaboration with filmmaker Alia Ardon. The film allows Kazem to reflect creatively on his experiences of incarceration, trauma, and the important role which music played in his physical and psychological survival. Border Farce develops an excoriating critique of the Australian government’s race-driven policies towards refugees, culminating in a defiant assertion of Kazem’s agency and steadfastness.
Sim Hahahah, Memory Playthrough
United States
2022, 2 minutes
Someone shows us how we can safely recount memories. The process is secure and virtually painless.
Tulapop Saenjaroen, Mangosteen
Thailand
2022, 40 minutes
A story about storytelling: After returning to his hometown to work in his sister’s fruit processing factory, Earth slowly but surely pulls out of the family business due to his disagreement with his sister. Earth then dedicates himself to writing an abstract, gory novel.
About e-flux Film Award
e-flux Film Award is a prize for artists’ films that push the boundaries of the aesthetic and critical potential of moving images in the age of planetary circulation of information. Selected by a jury of distinguished artists, filmmakers, and film selectors and curators from open submissions, it is awarded annually. e-flux Film Award welcomes submissions from both emerging and established artists who subvert and redefine traditional narrative forms and broaden our understanding and perception through the mastery of both film form and content. “How does one see what is hidden behind the images?,” Harun Farocki once asked. In line with e-flux Film’s programming that aims to challenge the expectations established by the commodification of moving-image art and to facilitate the critical discussion of artists’ films, e-flux Film Award is committed to recognizing works that deviate from the dominant and conventional regimes of visibility providing insightful and critical perspectives on today’s world.
For more information, contact program [at] e-flux.com.
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