Glued & Screwed #27 - met Q&A • Nederlands Filmhuis Denhaag

Eliane Esther Bots, Mikhail Karikis, Johan van der Keuken, Sarah Mashman

Glued & Screwed #27

This 27th edition of Glued & Screwed centers on the work of The Hague based filmmaker and visual artist Eliane Esther Bots, featuring four short films and two audio-pieces personally selected by the filmmaker.

This 27th edition of Glued & Screwed centers on the work of The Hague based filmmaker and visual artist Eliane Esther Bots. Working mostly within the realm of documentary film, her practice explores the idea of ‘the narrating self’, and the changes in narrative position and story when people experience a disruptive, life changing event or conflict. For this edition we will show Eliane's 2021 film In Flow of Words as well as a brand new ‘work in progress’ listening experience made as an invitation to experiment together with an audience. Alongside those two works, Eliane has personally selected four short films by other makers to contextualize her work and the evening.

Eliane Esther Bots will be present at the screening for an short conversation and Q&A regarding her work and the curated program that she put together.

Experiment (audio-piece) (Netherlands, 2026, 12') by Eliane Esther Bots

What should have been a film.
In the darkness of the cinema, this experiment unfolds as a listening experience shaped by an encounter between the filmmaker and Kesira and her family. Guided by voices moving across time, languages and registers, the experiment invites collective listening.The voices carry Chechen poems, songs and personal stories, sharing fragments of everyday life and memories shaped by decades of war, displacement and survival in Chechnya.Absent of images, combining song, poems, conversations and field recordings, what remains is voice: intimate, persistent, searching, an ode to listening, and to the home as a site of transmission.This is a work in progress that seeks to test how listening operates collectively in the cinema. The screening as part of 'Glued and Screwed' by WYSIWYG, becomes an invitation to try this together with an audience.

Sounds from Beneath (Greece, 2011-2012, 7') by Mikhail Karikis

Typically presented as an audio-visual installation, Sounds from Beneath is a project that centres around a vocal sound work in which a coal miners' choir (Snowdown Colliery Male Voice Choir) is invited to recall and sing the subterranean sounds of a working mine. The film is a collaboration with visual artist Uriel Orlow in which the colliery choir sing on top a disused Kentish mine where the men used to work. Sounds from Beneath brings a desolate coalmine back to life through song. A colliery once populated with workers, machines and the sounds of their activities transforms into an amphitheatre haunted by resonating sounds of explosions in the ground, machines cutting the coal-face, shovels scratching the earth and the distant melody of the Miner's Lament, all sung by the choir grouping in formations reminiscent of picket lines.

Sounds from Beneath continues Mikhail Karikis's exploration of notions of the stranger and his engagement with the voice as a sculptural material, investigating diverse vocal acts and the marginalisation of voices. In addition to the work being a meditation on singing as an act of resistance and community, it ruminates upon the relationship between the human voice and the machine, reflects on the under-representation of old voices, while celebrating communal music-making.

Herman Slobbe / Blind Kind 2 (Brazil, 1966, 29') by Johan van der Keuken

Early high point by documentary filmmaker Johan van der Keuken is a Dutch example of cinéma vérité: a direct, spontaneous form of looking for the truth with a handy camera and available light. With blackened images, a tracing camera and scanning shots, van der Keuken puts the spectator in the position of blind children: on the street with a white stick and at school during classes. —NFF

Then came the birds (audio-piece) (Australia, 2021, 7') by Sarah Mashman

Moruya local and audio guest Alice Ansara tells her Black Summer bushfire story in this intensely moving and award winning audio piece – created by Sarah Mashman, an award-winning producer based in Australia who primarily works in podcasts and radio.

Late 2019 Australia was gearing up for summer- making plans for regional and coastal vacations or stocking up on sunscreen. By the New Year visitors flooded back to smoke filled cities and the locals evacuated or bunkered down as massive climate fire storms hit major regional towns like never before. Artist and broadcaster, Alice Ansara evacuated three times over six weeks as the fire converged upon her town of Moruya, consuming houses, trees, fences and stopping just within the boundaries of her property.

In Flow of Words (Netherlands, 2021, 22') by Eliane Esther Bots

In Flow of Words follows the narratives of three interpreters of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. They interpreted shocking testimonies from witnesses, victims and perpetrators, without ever allowing their own emotions, feelings and personal histories to be present. Contrary to their position at the tribunal, this film places their voices and experiences center stage.

Glued and Screwed

Short experiment on the screen

Glued & Screwed is a project by screening platform wysiwyg in collaboration with Filmhuis Den Haag. This film evening serves as a platform for experimentation by (young) artists, designers and other makers working with the medium of film. The films and visual language that are missing in the regular film landscape are given a stage here and offer visitors challenging experiences.

During a discussion with the makers in the hall or during the drinks in the cafe there is space for dialogue and getting acquainted.

Click here for more information about Glued & Screwed.

Regisseur Eliane Esther Bots, Mikhail Karikis, Johan van der Keuken, Sarah Mashman
Land Nederland, Griekenland, Brazilië, Australië
Taal Divers
Ondertiteling Divers
Speelduur 120 min
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