CinemARC: Borderzone
CinemARC: Borderzone
ARC Public
Date: Friday 15 November 2024
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane, G11 6EW
Category: Films and theatre
Website: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cinemarc-borderzone-ii-tickets-1000136704807
Following on from Borderzone I, which took place in February 2024, Borderzone II showcases a series of short films from international artists that find different ways to examine what it means to be home, to be in place and to belong. Taking place amid growing insecurities surrounding the personal and the political, solidarity and statelessness, shelter and hostility, the screening brings together different perspectives, encompassing creative arts, film practices and conversation, to provoke timely conversations on themes of interiority, identity, being and belonging. Artists, filmmakers and audiences are invited to share their understanding of home, its affectual states and its temporal and spatial dimensions. Home may be desired as to come, as a return, as something made through lived practice or as acts of multi-dimensional memory. The event thus opens possibilities for all participants to ask question and offer reflections through voice, through making and through screen technologies.
Films to be screened:
On A Warm Day in July | Manon de Boer (feat. Claron Mc Fadden) | 2015 | 10 mins
On A Warm Day in July features American Soprano Claron McFadden improvising on a seventeenth-century song in an empty Brussels townhouse. The camera quickly abandons the singer and goes on to wander and explore her surroundings. Void of objects, the space is filled with history, each crack on the wall or scrap of detaching wallpaper a mesmerizing cinematic presence.
Pembe Ay | Meray Diner | 2023 | 15 mins
A daughter revisits her childhood home to work the garden with her father as it blossoms in the politically and physically divided island of Cyprus. It once facilitated her nightmares of the conflict and now their conversations. The filmmaker unearths the inter-generational trauma and healing.
My Own Personal Lebanon | Theo Pangopolous | 2020 | 16 mins
A short documentary following the attempts of a young Greek filmmaker to connect with his distant Lebanese half by discovering his mother's secret stories of the war. The film explores the emotional tension between national and personal identity through a conversation in a car.
A discussion forum based around the films will follow.
About the contributors:
Manon de Boer:
Manon de Boer's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale (2007), Berlin Biennale (2008), São Paulo Biennale (2010), documenta 13 (2012), and the Taipei Biennale (2016), and has been shown at numerous film festivals, including Hong Kong, Marseille, Rotterdam, and Vienna. Her work has been the subject of monographic exhibitions at Witte de With in Rotterdam (2008), the Frankfurter Kunstverein (2008), the South London Gallery (2010), the Contemporary Art Museum St.Louis (2011), the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2012), the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (2013), Secession Vienna (2016), the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon (2020), the Dhondt-Dhaenens Museum in Deurle (2022) and the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2022). Her films are part of prestigious museum collections such as MoMA in New York, MACBA in Barcelona, Mudam in Luxembourg, M HKA in Antwerp, SMAK in Ghent, and Mu.ZEE in Ostend.
Meray Diner:
Meray Diner is a Cypriot filmmaker based in Scotland. She explores the human relationship with the land, water, environment and the political themes that emerge from them. She worked with Portal Arts, Film Access Scotland, GMAC Film and Home For Cooperation in youth and community filmmaking for social justice, climate change and peacebuilding.
Theo Panagopoulos:
Theo Panagopoulos is a Greek-Lebanese-Palestinian filmmaker, film programmer and PhD researcher based in Scotland. His creative and academic work explore themes of collective memory, displacement, fragmented identities and archives. He has worked as a film programmer with the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival and the SAFAR Film Festival. He has been selected as part of multiple programming labs and initiatives such as The Barbican Emerging Curators (2023), SAFAR Futures (2022) and Film Hub Scotland's New Promoter Scheme (2021) and was a pre-selector for Encounters Short Film Festival (2023). He is currently a PhD researcher and Associate lecturer at the University of West of Scotland developing his thesis on film archives and using performance as a decolonial counternarrative.
Kirsten Adkins:
Kirsten Adkins is an artist and filmmaker who has a professional background in documentary television. Kirsten’s filmmaking and writing practice is concerned with stories of home, belonging and migration. She is currently working on a forthcoming edited anthology (Routledge 2024), and curated project space that is concerned with ways that artists and filmmakers use hybrid practices in film, poetry, song and dance to provoke questions on place, identity and belonging. Her interdisciplinary practice is informed by her work in news and factual programmes at the BBC where she worked as a producer and director. Kirsten has exhibited, presented, published, and broadcast nationally and internationally. She teaches experimental filmmaking and artists moving image at the University of Glasgow.