Escape into a dreamlike state during our free ‘Wholeness’ screening, a short experimental animation film by director Sarah Al-Sarraj, who will also be joining us for an in-person Q&A.
This film is an exclusive pre-screening for when you purchase tickets to Our River… Our Sky. Book here.
Film starts at 5pm (Doors open from 4.30pm)
Sarah’s film is a study on the limits of subjectivity and the need to transgress them to recognise the natural world’s sentience and reject the nature/culture and human/environment binaries created to dehumanise indigenous people.
Inspired aesthetically by the surreal dreamscapes of Maya Deren, an important figure in the 1940s avant-garde scene in New York, it is a homage to her exploration of dreams and subjectivity.
Expect to gander through a surreal landscape where figures merge into and out of their surroundings. Natural features such as rocky cliffs come to resemble teeth and bugs crawl across the skin to show parallels between the land and the body, both alive and capable of holding life.
The evening is presented by Arts Canteen in collaboration with Rich Mix.
Arab Women Artists Now (AWAN) is the UK’s only contemporary multi-arts festival dedicated to showcasing Arab women’s artistic work, taking place each March, to coincide with International Women’s Day across venues in London. The festival showcases work in venues across London. Celebrating and promoting high quality female artists from the Arab world and diaspora the cross-arts festival features music, comedy, literature, visual art, theatre and performance, along with a series of workshops and development opportunities for emerging artists.