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One Aloe, One Ficus, One Avocado and Six Dracaenas, dir. Marta Smerechynska, France 2022, 10mins
“The house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer...” In ‘The Poetics of Space’, Bachelard talks about how we experience space both in its reality and virtuality, through thoughts and dreams. There are many ways we can define a space: its location, its contents, its purpose. We might define a space through our relationship with it; our subjective experience of 'space' and 'self' interwoven.
In California, a woman views a property evoking memories of past houses. In Russia, we ponder how material things can house the immaterial elements of domestic life. In China, we consider a room as both sanctuary and emotional complex. In Turkey, we look to a specific type of room to inspire a child-like concentration of curiosity. In an Italian slaughterhouse, we learn the eerie brutality that is held even in emptiness. In Kyiv, we play witness to displacement in the way of boxed up household items. Akinna Aquino
Programme:
The Fruit Tree, dir. Isabelle Tollenaere, Belgium 2022, 14mins
Empty Rooms, dir. Zhenia Kazankina, Russia 2022, 6mins
The Room it Leaks, dir Xinyu XuXX, China 2023, 10mins
DARKROOM, dir. Asli Baykal, Turkey 2022, 14mins
Ingresso Animali Vivi, dir. Igor Grubic, Croatia 2023, 15mins
One Aloe, One Ficus, One Avocado and Six Dracaenas, dir. Marta Smerechynska, France 2022, 10mins
01:00 pm
Sun, 21 Jan 2024
Cinema 1
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