Join us for the screening night featuring films that critique colonial legacies, capitalism, and environmental degradation through the genre of horror!
Exhibitions available to view 6-7pm
(excluding the film Mermaids, or Aidan in Wonderland by Karrabing Film Collective)
Screening programme commences 7pm
Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer and Oba, Nosferasta: First Bite, 2021, 32 min
Nosferasta: First Bite is the first iteration of a Rastafarian vampire film starring and co-written by Oba, a Trinidadian artist and musician based in Brooklyn. The film reimagines Oba’s origin story; a nightmarish chronicle of colonial encounters dating back to 1492. Having been shipped as cargo from West Africa to the Caribbean, Oba is seduced and bitten by the vampire Christopher Columbus, ensuring an undying allegiance to the colonial project. Together this unlikely duo spread vampirism across the Western Hemisphere, pulling the strings of ‘New World’ geopolitics until Oba encounters Rastafarianism, an anticolonial religion, which, with a little help from the Devil’s lettuce (cannibis), enables him to finally break Columbus’ spell.
Riar Rizaldi, Notes from Gog Magog, 2022, 19 min
Notes from Gog Magog is an exploration of the interconnection between ghost stories, tech company culture in South Korea, and the economy of logistics in Indonesia told through a notebook/premake film and dossier of an unmade techno-horror feature-length film set in between port in Jakarta and an unnamed employee assistance programme office in Seoul.
Karrabing Film Collective, The Family and the Zombie, 2021, 30 min
The Family (A Zombie Movie) opens in a seemingly idyllic landscape where the future ancestors of Karrabing are digging yams as their children play games in the bush. Then a monstrous form slowly from behind a log, its skin crusted with an oozing white substance, extending a clawed arm toward the children. Alternating between contemporary time in which Karrabing members struggle to maintain their physical, ethical and ceremonial connections to their remote ancestral lands and a future populated by ancestral beings living in the aftermath of toxic capitalism and white zombies, The Family mixes comedy, tragedy and realism to reflect on the practices of the present and their impact on worlds to come.
