LUX Scotland and Ajabu Ajabu Audio Visual House, Tanzania, are delighted to present the second of three online screenings and conversations in a new moving image exchange titled 'Hadithi Hadithi: Place is mostly open space' which will unfold over May and June.
This second screening, includes work by Gertrude Malizana and Saoirse Wall and is available to view online from 31 May to 14 June. A live online conversation between Malizana and Wall hosted by LUX Scotland and Ajabu Ajabu Audio Visual House will take place via Zoom on Tuesday, 7 June at 6:30pm UK time / 8:30pm Tanzania time. Places for this conversation are included in booking for the screening.
'Hadithi Hadithi: Place is mostly open space' is centered on stories from Tanzania and Scotland that reimagine space through excavation of folklore and visual myth making. The featured artists use a variety of approaches rooted in pre modern storytelling such as oral narration, anthropomorphising, improv, allegory, and other gifts of unfettered make-believe for a recreation or reinterpretation of place, history, origin and identity. Taken together the work seek to visualise what stories, encounters, epiphanies and resolutions reside watchfully in unoccupied spaces. It will culminate in the first ever moving image exhibition at the Zanzibar International Film Festival.
Programme 1:
Rhona Mühlebach, Excitement Is Not Part Of My Feeling Repertoire', 2021. 27 mins
Arafa C. Hamadi, 'Kujiona: In Conversation With Kevin Mwachiro', 2020. 26 mins.
Online screening 24 May - 7 June with online conversation on 31 May at 6:30pm (GMT) / 8:30pm East Africa Time (EAT).
Programme 2:
Gertrude Malizana, Uwepo Wa Mwanamke, Presence of a Woman, 2022. 11 mins
Saoirse Wall, 'The Leaf and the Saviour Guy', 2020. 8 mins.
Online screening 31 May - 14 June with online conversation on 7 June at 6:30pm (GMT) / 8:30pm East Africa Time (EAT).
Forthcoming in 'Hadithi Hadithi: Place is mostly open space':
Programme 3:
Valerie Asiimwe Amani and Sekai Machache, online screening 7 - 21 June with online conversation on 14 June at 6:30pm (GMT) / 8:30pm East Africa Time (EAT).
Programme 4:
Zanzibar International Film Festival, 22 June, 7pm (EAT).
Organised by Ajabu Ajabu Audio Visual House and LUX Scotland, supported by the British Council – in association with Zanzibar International Film Festival.
The Leaf and the Saviour Guy is a fable-film, drawing together references from healing practices including the traditional culture of thermal springs and contemporary online tools for self-help and therapy. The Leaf and the Saviour Guy presents a reality in which water can heal patriarchal arrogance. The film proposes that criticism can be appreciated as care, that this can be joyful: ‘Dancing is an expression of this joy, as well as a way to consolidate this kind of learning in the body—a way to keep moving, to keep a movement going.’
The film incorporates methods of audio description and subtitling in the narration, techniques usually used to support blind and visually impaired people, or those who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing. The narration is voiced by the artist, and emphasises, through these multiple sensory channels, the shifting viewpoints and experiences materialised in the film of both the Leaf and the Saviour Guy characters.
This film was originally made for The Law is a White Dog, TULCA Festival, curated by Sarah Browne in 2020. This work was first available to experience as an audio-only version as part of a podcast series curated for the festival. When covid-19 restrictions were lifted, it was exhibited in Engage Art Studios, Salthill, in a room that was previously the waiting room of a medical centre, and before that, part of the complex of St. Joseph’s Industrial School, Salthill.
- Year2020
- Runtime8 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- DirectorSaoirse Wall
LUX Scotland and Ajabu Ajabu Audio Visual House, Tanzania, are delighted to present the second of three online screenings and conversations in a new moving image exchange titled 'Hadithi Hadithi: Place is mostly open space' which will unfold over May and June.
This second screening, includes work by Gertrude Malizana and Saoirse Wall and is available to view online from 31 May to 14 June. A live online conversation between Malizana and Wall hosted by LUX Scotland and Ajabu Ajabu Audio Visual House will take place via Zoom on Tuesday, 7 June at 6:30pm UK time / 8:30pm Tanzania time. Places for this conversation are included in booking for the screening.
'Hadithi Hadithi: Place is mostly open space' is centered on stories from Tanzania and Scotland that reimagine space through excavation of folklore and visual myth making. The featured artists use a variety of approaches rooted in pre modern storytelling such as oral narration, anthropomorphising, improv, allegory, and other gifts of unfettered make-believe for a recreation or reinterpretation of place, history, origin and identity. Taken together the work seek to visualise what stories, encounters, epiphanies and resolutions reside watchfully in unoccupied spaces. It will culminate in the first ever moving image exhibition at the Zanzibar International Film Festival.
Programme 1:
Rhona Mühlebach, Excitement Is Not Part Of My Feeling Repertoire', 2021. 27 mins
Arafa C. Hamadi, 'Kujiona: In Conversation With Kevin Mwachiro', 2020. 26 mins.
Online screening 24 May - 7 June with online conversation on 31 May at 6:30pm (GMT) / 8:30pm East Africa Time (EAT).
Programme 2:
Gertrude Malizana, Uwepo Wa Mwanamke, Presence of a Woman, 2022. 11 mins
Saoirse Wall, 'The Leaf and the Saviour Guy', 2020. 8 mins.
Online screening 31 May - 14 June with online conversation on 7 June at 6:30pm (GMT) / 8:30pm East Africa Time (EAT).
Forthcoming in 'Hadithi Hadithi: Place is mostly open space':
Programme 3:
Valerie Asiimwe Amani and Sekai Machache, online screening 7 - 21 June with online conversation on 14 June at 6:30pm (GMT) / 8:30pm East Africa Time (EAT).
Programme 4:
Zanzibar International Film Festival, 22 June, 7pm (EAT).
Organised by Ajabu Ajabu Audio Visual House and LUX Scotland, supported by the British Council – in association with Zanzibar International Film Festival.
The Leaf and the Saviour Guy is a fable-film, drawing together references from healing practices including the traditional culture of thermal springs and contemporary online tools for self-help and therapy. The Leaf and the Saviour Guy presents a reality in which water can heal patriarchal arrogance. The film proposes that criticism can be appreciated as care, that this can be joyful: ‘Dancing is an expression of this joy, as well as a way to consolidate this kind of learning in the body—a way to keep moving, to keep a movement going.’
The film incorporates methods of audio description and subtitling in the narration, techniques usually used to support blind and visually impaired people, or those who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing. The narration is voiced by the artist, and emphasises, through these multiple sensory channels, the shifting viewpoints and experiences materialised in the film of both the Leaf and the Saviour Guy characters.
This film was originally made for The Law is a White Dog, TULCA Festival, curated by Sarah Browne in 2020. This work was first available to experience as an audio-only version as part of a podcast series curated for the festival. When covid-19 restrictions were lifted, it was exhibited in Engage Art Studios, Salthill, in a room that was previously the waiting room of a medical centre, and before that, part of the complex of St. Joseph’s Industrial School, Salthill.
- Year2020
- Runtime8 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- DirectorSaoirse Wall