Descendants
Short film programme
Total runtime: 56min
 
Personal, geological and collective histories are reencountered through this series of films. A reckoning is at the core of Myrid Carten’s candid portrait of familial ties in ’Sorrow had a baby’. While the caverns of a corpse mountain become the place and wonder for a curious eye in Rita Morais’ 16mm film Há ouro em todo o lado, where a child’s play and voice relay sage observations of its past transformation. Afro-Diasporic underground disco, house and ballroom culture is source and inspiration for the blissful and rapturous worldmaking within India Sky Davies’ ‘The Lifecycle of Rainbows’.
 
Descendants is presented in collaboration with the MA Artists’ Film & Moving Image at Goldsmiths University of London, selected by artist filmmaker and programme director Gail Pickering.
 
18th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
Sunday 5-March 2023 at 10:00
Malting Main House Cinema
 
Sorrow had a baby
Dir. Myrid Carten
2022
18 min
Preview short
 
Há ouro em todo o lado (There is gold everywhere)
Dir. Rita Morais
2023
12 minutes
UK Festival Premiere
 
The Life Cycle of Rainbows
Dir. India Sky Davis
2021
26 minutes
UK Festival Premiere

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