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CAMPLE LINE Director, Tina Fiske, introduces to 'To Pick A Flower' by Shireen Seno and 'a forecast, a haunting, a crossing, a visitation' by Emilia Beatriz

Tina Fiske introduces films by Shireen Seno & Emilia Beatriz

CAMPLE LINE Director, Tina Fiske, introduces to 'To Pick A Flower' by Shireen Seno and 'a forecast, a haunting, a crossing, a visitation' by Emilia Beatriz

To Pick A Flower centres around Kolambugan, a coastal lumber town established by American businessmen on the southern island of Mindanao in the Philippines in 1912, which takes its name from a tree species that at one time grew abundantly in that area. Seno’s video essay incorporates archival photographs from the American Colonial Era in the Philippines (1898–1946), and explores what she has referred to as ‘the sticky relationship between humans and nature and their entanglements with empire’. Taking plants and trees as starting points, the film reflects on the intertwined roots of photography and capitalism in the Philippines; as Seno comments of particular images: ‘In these photographs I found of people in relation to nature, men were usually photographed as&nbsp;conquistadors, exerting their power over trees.’&nbsp; ---------- Shireen Seno is an artist and filmmaker whose work addresses memory, history, and image-making, often in relation to the idea of home.&nbsp;A recipient of the 2018 Thirteen Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines, her films have won awards at Rotterdam, Shanghai, Olhar de Cinema, Vladivostok, Jogja-Netpac, and Lima Independiente and have screened internationally at festivals and institutions including TIFF, New Directors/New Films, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin,Tate Modern, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Portikus, NTU Center for Contemporary Art Singapore, Taipei National Center for Photography and Images, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, Museum of Contemporary Art &amp; Design Manila, and MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai. Seno will be a 2022 Film Fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin program. She and John Torres had their first solo exhibition in 2019 at Portikus in Frankfurt. In Manila, they run&nbsp;Los Otros, a critically-acclaimed film and video studio and platform committed to the intersections of film and art. She is also part of the collective&nbsp;Tito &amp; Tita, whose work spans installation, film, photography, and collective action.

To Pick a Flower by Shireen Seno

Seno’s video essay incorporates archival photographs from the American Colonial Era in the Philippines (1898–1946), and explores what she has referred to as ‘the sticky relationship between humans and nature and their entanglements with empire’.

‘a forecast, a haunting, a crossing, a visitation’ was originally created as an immersive 3-screen installation. For this screening, all visual elements of the work are re-presented within one screen.&nbsp; We recommend watching the film at the highest resolution possible (1080p) on a laptop or television screen in order to best experience and appreciate the details, along with good quality headphones or speakers if possible. We have a data top-up fund available, to enable the film to be watched at the highest resolution if your home wifi connection cannot meet this. Watching the full film at 1080p will use about 4GB of data.&nbsp; If you would like to access the fund, please email us at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:info@campleline.org.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">info@campleline.org.uk</a>. We&nbsp;will need a&nbsp;screenshot/receipt&nbsp;of your data top-up, and we will reimburse you via PayPal.&nbsp; If/when the limit of this fund is reached, we will update this message. ----------- A sensory invitation for viewing 'a forecast, a haunting, a crossing, a visitation' from Emilia Beatriz

An invitation for viewing 'a forecast, a haunting, a crossing, a visitation'

‘a forecast, a haunting, a crossing, a visitation’ was originally created as an immersive 3-screen installation. For this screening, all visual elements of the work are re-presented within one screen.&nbsp; -------------- a forecast, a haunting, a crossing, a visitation focuses largely on Scotland and Cape Wrath, wherein a series of characters Uranio (Uranium), Agüita (an affectionate name for water) and Vientazo (a gust of wind), write letters to one another. The letters appeal to the water, the wind and the toxic land, speculating upon the navigation of bodily crisis, health and grief, speaking of the feeling of mourning environmental loss. Previously shown as a three-channel video installation, the film includes images from the Vieques Archive of Historical Memory, video footage of protests recorded by Vieques filmmaker Andrés Nieves, and posters and stickers of Scottish Vieques solidarity actions, filmed at the Park Ranger Archives at Durness Information Centre. The film is informed by these connections, and by oral histories from farmers and workers from Durness and Cape Wrath, where Emilia visited in October 2018. The film holds an oral history of fisherman, crofter and mini bus operator James Mather, framing stories of healing and activism through the ubiquity of peat and moss. The work also speaks of Scotland’s lesser told colonial history - the movement of ships and supplies across the Atlantic, and a Scottish ship’s five-day occupation of Crabb Island (the British name for Vieques) in 1698, as part of Scotland’s failed attempt to set up a colony in the Caribbean Gulf of Darién. ------------ Director&nbsp;Emilia Beatriz&nbsp;Sound Design&nbsp;Kiera Coward-Deyell&nbsp;Oral History&nbsp;James MatherArchival Footage&nbsp;Andrés NievesCommissioned by&nbsp;CCA, GlasgowWith thanks to&nbsp;Ainslie Roddick, Cine Vieques, Vieques Museum of Historical Memory, Donald Mitchell, Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Scottish Collections at Mitchell Library, Hope Scott Trust, Glasgow Visual Arts Makers Awards, Robert Rabin, Beta Local&nbsp; ---------- Emilia Beatriz is an artist, access worker and beekeeper-in-study from Puerto Rico’s diaspora, living in Glasgow. Emilia’s work addresses interconnected histories of bodies, land and resistance. Their practice engages griefwork attuned to climate and place, informed by oral history and community archiving. Emilia was the 2020/2021 Margaret Tait Award recipient, their forthcoming film 'barrunto' seeks to poetically translate ‘embodied forecasting’ through immersive sensorial storytelling.

a forecast, a haunting, a crossing, a visitation by Emilia Beatriz / Kiera Coward-Deyell

A series of characters Uranio (Uranium), Agüita (an affectionate name for water) and Vientazo (a gust of wind), write letters to one another. The letters appeal to the water, the wind and the toxic land, speculating upon the navigation of bodily crisis, health and grief, speaking of the feeling of mourning environmental loss.

Watch the recording of Emilia Beatriz &amp; Shireen Seno's live online conversation, hosted by Emma Dove and Tina Fiske at CAMPLE LINE. English subtitles can be toggled on via the CC button at the bottom of the screen, the selecting 'English'.

Recording: Emilia Beatriz & Shireen Seno in conversation, Sat 19 Feb 2022 (English subtitles available)

Watch the recording of Emilia Beatriz & Shireen Seno's live online conversation

Shireen Seno & Emilia Beatriz in conversation

Join us for a live conversation and Q&A with the filmmakers, hosted by CAMPLE LINE

To Pick a Flower (2021, Shireen Seno) & a forecast, a haunting, a crossing, a visitation (2019, Emilia Beatriz)

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 '(Im)material worlds' is an artists moving image programme that gives focus to the environmental crisis from Global South and postcolonial perspectives. It brings together recent and new moving image work by four Southeast Asian and four UK-based artists and filmmakers, who use experimental and essayistic forms to explore communities, habitats and places through their colonial, political, military and environmental histories. With paired online screenings and hosted dialogues with the filmmakers, the programme will unfold over eight weeks in February and March 2022.