Sustained movement undermines the powers that oppress. In the face of injustice and its insidious cousin, indifference, may we amplify joy. May there be music, may there be singing, may there be dancing. May we set our wings aflame and take to the sky. May we send messages of resistance and love through the airwaves and may we build monuments that reach the heavens. And if these monuments should collapse, may we revel in the beauty that remains. May we do this again and again.
Program:
Choreography of Light (2024, IR/US, 6’)
Homa Sarabi
Remote Views (2025, US, 15’)
Alexis McCrimmon
*not available virtually in Australia
What goes up (2024, SA/US, 30’)
Samar Al Summary
Silos del Cielo (2025, US, 14’)
Joseph Kolean
The Motherfucker's Birthday (2024, IQ/US, 6’)
Saif Alsaegh
Kitty Kathryn Sings The Blues (2025, US, 13’)
Joshua Markowitz
Let The Red Moon Burn (2024, CA/BG, 6’)
Ralitsa Doncheva
Through dancing, The Motherfucker's Birthday shows the evil of the dictator and the horror people endure under powerful political leaders. The film presents dancing, a universal and uniquely human activity often representing joy, with eerie footage of Saddam and his sons’ torture tools while they dance. Bush also dances with a smirk across the screen while announcing a war that would destabilize a whole region. Everything becomes a gesture of dance: the torture, the hesitant political humor, and the war. Everyone becomes a dancer, the dictator and the oppressed performing a distorted version of this human act. Saddam dances, Bush dances, so what's left for the Iraqi people, except to join in?
- Year2024
- Runtime6 minutes
- CountryUnited States, Iraq
- DirectorSaif Alsaegh
Sustained movement undermines the powers that oppress. In the face of injustice and its insidious cousin, indifference, may we amplify joy. May there be music, may there be singing, may there be dancing. May we set our wings aflame and take to the sky. May we send messages of resistance and love through the airwaves and may we build monuments that reach the heavens. And if these monuments should collapse, may we revel in the beauty that remains. May we do this again and again.
Program:
Choreography of Light (2024, IR/US, 6’)
Homa Sarabi
Remote Views (2025, US, 15’)
Alexis McCrimmon
*not available virtually in Australia
What goes up (2024, SA/US, 30’)
Samar Al Summary
Silos del Cielo (2025, US, 14’)
Joseph Kolean
The Motherfucker's Birthday (2024, IQ/US, 6’)
Saif Alsaegh
Kitty Kathryn Sings The Blues (2025, US, 13’)
Joshua Markowitz
Let The Red Moon Burn (2024, CA/BG, 6’)
Ralitsa Doncheva
Through dancing, The Motherfucker's Birthday shows the evil of the dictator and the horror people endure under powerful political leaders. The film presents dancing, a universal and uniquely human activity often representing joy, with eerie footage of Saddam and his sons’ torture tools while they dance. Bush also dances with a smirk across the screen while announcing a war that would destabilize a whole region. Everything becomes a gesture of dance: the torture, the hesitant political humor, and the war. Everyone becomes a dancer, the dictator and the oppressed performing a distorted version of this human act. Saddam dances, Bush dances, so what's left for the Iraqi people, except to join in?
- Year2024
- Runtime6 minutes
- CountryUnited States, Iraq
- DirectorSaif Alsaegh