Glued & Screwed #32 • Nederlands Filmhuis Denhaag

Ismaïl Bahri, Sabine Groenewegen, Nika Autor, Adam Lewis Jacob

Glued & Screwed #32

The first edition in a series of three programs titled Unearthing the Archives! Transforming forgotten stories, personal memories, and political pasts into new ways of looking at the present and imagining the future.

Excavation is the first edition in a series of three programs titled Unearthing the Archives!. A deep-dive into the world of archival films. Using mostly if not only pre-existing archival footage, the filmmakers in this program tell stories through the simple yet potent power of editing. Transforming forgotten stories, personal memories, and political pasts into new ways of looking at the present and imagining the future.

Present at the screening will be Sabine Groenewegen for a brief Q&A after the screening.

Film programme:

Apparition
Ismaïl Bahri | France | 2019 | 3 minutes

The past is always out of reach, yet we’re always pulled towards it. Ismaïl Bahri's poetic film plays with this paradox. We see two hands holding a photograph which is illuminated by strong light from two sides, blinding us to its contents. Only the shadows cast by the hands reveal what is hidden by the light: a crowd gathering on 20 March 1956, Tunisia's independence day. A synaesthetic gesture, where seeing is enabled by touch.

Remanence
Sabine Groenewegen | Netherlands | 2024 | 22 minutes

Orginally an Installation, Remanence combines testimonies from recently discovered oral history and never-before-seen film footage, this short film evokes a lost history of a women’s peace movement in which women worked across social divides towards collective action in the 1930s. The images of the women’s movement are re-framed by oral history testimonies of participants, now elderly, looking back at their efforts – and the course of history – during interviews conducted by feminist researchers in the 1980s. 

Postcards
Nika Autor | Slovenia | 2010 | 8 minutes

The compilation video presents a re-edit of recordings taken from the archives of the Radio Television of Slovenia, between 2000-2008. Re-edited images offer a visual analysis and reflection of the TV recordings and its representation of reporting on migration, as the re-juxtaposed images depicts formless and nameless individuals and point to the framing of lives that are victimized and criminalized.

Idrish
Adam Lewis Jacob | Bangladesh, United Kingdom | 2021 | 31 minutes

Idrish acts as an urgent and potent piece of anti-deportation activism. With reports of deportation flights regularly in the news, the film is rich with resonance to our current moment. In one striking sequence, footage of a protest march gives way to staccato editing and propulsive sound design by Claude Nouk, who re-uses and manipulates archival sounds to transform the film into a powerful rallying cry. Radically reanimating the documentary form, Jacob enlivens the archive to tell a vital history.

Regisseur Ismaïl Bahri, Sabine Groenewegen, Nika Autor, Adam Lewis Jacob
Land Frankrijk, Nederland, Slovenië, Bangladesh, Verenigd Koninkrijk
Taal Nederlands, Engels
Ondertiteling Engels
Speelduur 120 min

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