A River Runs Between Our Streets #2
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Sunday’s films speak to the mental violence of displacement, language barriers, border crossings, and asylum-seeking, providing intimate viewpoints on the lives of those it touches the most. Featuring work by Imran Peretta, Sylvain George, Mieriën Coppens & Elie Maissin, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Robert Fenz, Mati Diop, Rehana Zaman, El Moïz Ghammam & Fairuz Ghammam, Warda Mohamed, Sophio Medoidze and John Greyson.
Artists Mieriën Coppens & Elie Maissin (online), and curator Toni Lee (online) will join to discuss the work.
The afternoon will be presented in two parts with a short break for complimentary refreshments in the community room.
Part of Pavilion Presents, in partnership with Migration Yorkshire.
Films:
15 Days Imran Peretta, 2018, 12 min, UK
Nocturnal White Hunter / Nocturne Blanc-Chasseur Sylvain George, 2015, 24 min, France
And Their Letters / Et Leurs Lettres Mieriën Coppens & Elie Maissin, 2023, 23 min, Belgium
Mobile Men Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2008, 3 min, Thailand
Crossings Robert Fenz, 2006/7, 10 min, USA
Atlantiques Mati Diop, 2009, 16 min, France / Senegal
Tell Me the Story of All These Things Rehana Zaman, 2017, 22 min, UK
Oumoun El Moïz Ghammam & Fairuz Ghammam, 2017, 15 min, Belgium / Tunisia
Sorry, My Somali Is Not Very Good Warda Mohamed, 2021, 3 min, UK
Learning To Speak to My Daughter (Mother’s Dictionary) Sophio Medoidze, 2006, 3 min, UK
International Dawn Chorus Day John Greyson, 2021, 15 min, Canada
