EXTENDED PLAY: MUSIC FILM EDITION
Extended Play is a Screen Out Loud event featuring more than one film and lasting beyond one day. This first edition will feature films celebrating music and musicians, and music histories from around the world.
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June 12: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MAMANI ABDOULAYE by Amina Abdoulaye Mamani
Today, the politican seems to have disappeared from the official history of Niger, but the man of letters continues to survive beyond the borders by the writings he left. This man was my father. By following in his footsteps, twenty-three years after his death, I rediscover little by little with his history, the one of my country.
May 8: TRADITION TODAY (Short Film Programme)
Through a selection of four short films, we explore traditional religion and cultures in modern times. We encounter young people who are sustaining or rediscovering their traditional religious heritage regardless of stigma and the pressures of modernisation.
April 10: THEIR ALGERIA by Lina Soualem | Nigerian Premiere
The longstanding journey of exile of Aïcha and Mabrouk: a couple of Algerian immigrants living in a
medieval French town since sixty years, whose lives were a succession of separations and silences.
April 3: WHEN A FARM GOES AFLAME by Jide Tom Akinleminu (2021) | Nigerian Premiere
“When a farm goes aflame” is set in the aftermath of a lifetime of secrecy and denial. It attempts to bring together the stories and beliefs of all protagonists as they come to terms with their common past and shape their future.
March 13: THE LOST LEGACY OF BIDA BIKINI (2021) by Remi Vaughan-Richards
From 2015, research into Masagá glass production revealed that only one ninety-year-old man retained the secret knowledge of glassmaking. The knowledge to produce bikini glass was in jeopardy of disappearing. As the threat of a lost legacy loomed, in November 2019, the Masagá glassmakers agreed to recreate bikini glass.
Call for Content: “Audio-visual Crossroads”
Call for Abstracts open till March 8, 2022. For ‘Audio-Visual Crossroads’, we intend to publish a collection of essays and profiles that showcases the rich and diverse interactions between music and the moving image.
February 13: THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN (2020) by Kaouther Ben Hania
In order to get to Europe and live with the love of his life, Sam Ali agrees to have his back tattooed by the world’s most sultry contemporary artist. But as he transforms his body into a prestigious work of art, Sam discovers that his decision has come at the cost of his freedom.
December 10: FOR MARIA EBUN PATAKI (Damilola Orimogunje; 2020)
After a complicated childbirth, Derin finds herself at odds with life and loved ones, including her newborn Maria.
November 13: TAMBIÉN LA LLUVIA (Icíar Bollaín, 2010) | #ArtCinemaDay
A film crew arrives in Cochabamba with the assurance of period verisimilitude and the promise of cheap extras. But reality belies expectation.