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.
Through the eyes of a child searching for her mother across spaces where women operate in Dar es Salaam — this piece seeks to define ‘mother’ not as a noun, but as a verb, as acts of care performed by women.
Malizana uses familiar lullabies and other storytelling practices to synonymize the spaces and the acts of care with ‘mother’, and build their relationship with the child that moves through them.
- Year2022
- Runtime11 mins
- LanguageSwahili
- CountryTanzania, United Republic of
- DirectorGertrude Malizana
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.
Through the eyes of a child searching for her mother across spaces where women operate in Dar es Salaam — this piece seeks to define ‘mother’ not as a noun, but as a verb, as acts of care performed by women.
Malizana uses familiar lullabies and other storytelling practices to synonymize the spaces and the acts of care with ‘mother’, and build their relationship with the child that moves through them.
- Year2022
- Runtime11 mins
- LanguageSwahili
- CountryTanzania, United Republic of
- DirectorGertrude Malizana