Enclosures of Violence - Screening
at de Appel Amsterdam
Date: 22 April 2024
Time: 17:30-20:30
Location:
de Appel
Tolstraat 160
1074 VM Amsterdam
As part of the solo-exhibition for Inas Halabi at de Appel, After the Last Sky, Sarmad Platform will be presenting a programme of three film screenings followed by a discussion. The programme is a response to Inas Halabi’s work using Sarmad's ongoing research on image, power, and resistance.
The three films that will be on screen are:
Dream of Silk (2003)
Ziyarat (زیارت, The Pilgrimage) (2020)
Drowned in Neretva River (2020)
They are made in two different geographical locations, namely Iran and Bosnia, and explore the traumatic violences of oppression that is embedded into bodies, spaces, and landscapes. Using diverse techniques from documentary to archival studies, mapping and storytelling, the films make different forms of violence sensible.
The collective discussion with the audience will be centered around how landscape can be seen as an expression of violent systems of control and the role of image- and film-making in representing that violence.
Many thanks to everybody who showed up and engaged with the conversation. Thank you Inas Halabi for the invitation and de Appel team for their efforts and patience…
