Timings
17.45 - Doors
18.00 - Blessing
18.10 - Film Screenings
18.30 - In Conversation with Edd Carr and Benjamin Cook
19.00 - Audience Q&A
Film Screenings
Absolut Native (2003) by Grace Ndiritu
The title of Absolut Native is written in the blue typeface of Absolut vodka. As black feet stomp on bare soil to the cheerful sounds of the vibraphone, a statement by Joseph Stigltiz, former chief economist of the World Bank, scrolls underneath in the same typeface.
5 min 30 secs
Arrested Development (2003) by Grace Ndiritu
Arrested Development uses a simple image, Ndiritu attempts to transform the weighty issue of poverty into a testament to Africa's beauty and strength.
New Global Performances is a series of videos focuses on using studio performances like in the videos Arrested Development to enlighten the viewer through transmission of positive energies through the medium of video so that the viewer can change their perception of difficult socio-political issues like genocide.
3 min 06 secs
A Hill Inside (2023) by Sarah Hudson
E kore a Parawhenuamea e haere ki te kore a Rakahore ~ Freshwater does not go without rocks.
Sarah Hudson spent several years immersing herself in the practices of her tūpuna Māori, researching the way rocks, clay and soils have been used as a material for personal adornment, art-making, ceremony and medicine. In this work she explores the relationship between land, water and body through ritual. As she applies grey uku to her body, face and hair, water and earth come together to make rich new textures and colours. Clay objects, returned to the river, bear the marks of these rituals. The relationship between earth and water is established with whakapapa and communicated through te reo Māori, as evident in the above whakataukī.
Parawhenuamea ~ the personification of freshwater
Rakahore ~ the personification of rock
tūpuna Māori ~ Māori ancestors
uku ~ clay
whakapapa ~ genealogy, lineage
te reo Māori ~ the Māori language
whakataukī ~ proverb
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil (from August 2024)
10 mins 10 secs and 9 mins 59 secs
In The Soil (2021) by Casper Rudolf
Karoline’s life is turned upside down when her father, Kjeld, manically starts digging a pit in their backyard. The following days turn into a living nightmare as the pit becomes a grave and the land, which has been in the family for generations, pulls Kjeld further and further down into the deep.
14 min
Danish with English subtitles
YORKSHIRE DIRT (2022) by Edd Carr
YORKSHIRE DIRT is a challenge to the false pastoralism of British rural life - of cows happily chewing on grass, farmers with a thumb of wheat jammed in their jaw, and peaceful green fields broken only by the sounds of a noble tractor steering its fateful course.
In an era of crisis, YORKSHIRE DIRT brings attention to the ecological violence that strings the landscape together; be it the over-grazing of land, the genocidal pesticides advocated by the National Farmers’ Union, hedgerows clipped into submission, sheep-dip poisoning workers, plastics polluting the soils, and more.
The film is printed entirely on soil collected from the North Yorkshire moorland, using a low-tech process the artist innovated.
3 mins 16 secs
