History Reverberates

Date: 20 January 18.30 - 21.00

Co-curated by Kelly Rappleye

Join us for an evening of films inspired by Turner Prize 2024 nominee Delaine Le Bas. Delve into themes of nationhood, land, and the search for belonging through the lens of nomadism and exile. The programme traverse borders and boundaries, offering profound reflections on migration, displacement, and cultural resilience. Vibrating with acts of transgression and radical care in the face of dispossession, xenophobia and bordering, these films reveal how dissident cultures, stories, and forms of knowledge are passed across generations and geographies, making home again and again. This programme has been curated by researcher/ curator Kelly Rappleye, who will join us to introduce the films.

Runtime

Batrachian’s Ballad (2016) 16 Min by Leonor Teles

When the Dogs Talked (2014) 33 Min, by the Karrabing Film Collective

The Retreat (2023) 21 Min, 15 Sec by Gelare Khoshgozaran

Date: 3 February 18.30–21.00

With special performance by performer and poet Chloe Filani

Celebrate the powerful representations of Black identity and the human form in Claudette Johnson’s art. These week focuses on personal and communal identity. Capturing the essence of individuality and cultural heritage.

Runtime

Adura baba Mi (2024) 15 minutes by Julana Kasumu

LA DEFENSE VOLUME I - PACIFIC CLUB (2022) 16 minutes by Valentin Nouaïm

The Exist Under Permanent Suspicion (2024) 14 minutes by Valentin Nouaïm

INSCAPE (2019) 2 minutes by Lilah Benetti

Les Somme De Nous (2024) by Lilah Benetti

Meanwhile on Set ... (2018) 15 minutes  by Jennifer Martin

O' Pierrot (2019) 8 minutes by Tanoa Sasraku

What Does the Water Taste Like (2000) 8 minutes by Juliana Kasuma

Date: 10 February 18.30–21.00

Explore how history reverberates through political histories and personal memories. Inspired by the work of Pio Abad. Unraveling the complex impacts of the past on present identities.

Reflect on how the remnants of history shape present identities. We invite viewers to consider the lasting impacts of our collective past.

Runtime

No Prospects / Change of Heart Special (2021) 15 minutes by Jennifer Lauren Martin

Red Jeep(2023) 5 minutes by Chanthila Phaophanit

Still House(2023) 5 minutes by Chanthila Phaophanit

Reimagined Realities 

Date:10th February 18.30 - 21.00

Co-curated by Amrita Dhallu

Inspired by Jasleen Kaur's use of gathering and remaking objects from everyday life. Through installation, she renegotiates tradition and collective myths. These films will explore cultural memory and political belonging. Through a captivating blend of textual and filmic collages. These works interconnect documentary, archival, and found materials. Consider how personal and collective histories influence our understanding of the world.

Inspired by DOWSER, a living archive of Scotland’s artists’ moving image, this session reflects on the act of mapping histories long shadowed or overlooked. With its third issue, Jugalbandi—a duet of two equally matched soloists in Indian classical music, meaning "entwined twins"—provides the perfect frame.

Alia Syed and Jasleen Kaur, through their single-screen works Points of Departure (2014) and Ethnoresidue (2020), respond to each other’s moving image practices. Their voices entwine, tracing connections between language, memory, and belonging.

Amrita Dhallu

Amrita Dhallu is a curator based in South East England. She provides support structures for artists through commissioning, publishing projects and creating artistic networks. She is currently reflecting on diasporic feminist practice (spatial and sonic) and the ways in which it reveals the systems of compliance and complicity within the British cultural institutional space.

Kelly Rappleye

Kelly Rappleye is a curator and AHRC/SGSAH PhD researcher at Glasgow School of Art and a 2024 Emerging Curators Group member. Her research and practice focus on contemporary art’s role in urban place-making and spatial politics, with particular interests in moving image and cultural memory.

Chloe Filani

Chloe AyoDeji Filani, Artist, working with Poetry, Performance, and Sound.

Chloe is a Black Feminist that frequently probes the broader themes surrounding her Identity as a  Black transwoman of Nigerian Yoruba and Eshan heritage. Her work encourages you to go on a journey of playful expression using the body as a vessel in collaboration with sound and poetry.

Ese Onojeruo is a curator and film producer based in London.

Her practice is centred around reimagining institutional spaces and structures for bodies that are often discriminated against, or ‘othered’. She is interested in these communal experiences of ‘exclusion’ as sites of alternative knowledge production.

As a producer she has continued to support artistic development, supporting projects such as: Prime Time by Anthea Hamilton commission by Hayward Gallery(2022);  I Carry It With Me Everywhere by Turab Shah Arwa Aburawa (2022); Undercurrent 528 by Evan Ifekoya (2021); The Only Good System is a Sound System, Black Obsidian Sound System (2021); Resilient Responses Tate Gallery Commission by Tate (2020).

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