Join Sophia al-Maria and Gabe Beckhurst for a screening and discussion on ruins as sites for imagining feminist and decolonial futures.
What imaginaries are subtended by the ruin as a motif used to grieve, remember and interpret past events? What role does film play in reanimating remnants of history? And how do collective forms of narration and storytelling resist modes of knowing that are imposed by colonial and patriarchal forms of knowledge production?
If the Future Were a Love Poem brings together two short films by Sophia Al-Maria, Tiger Strike Red (2022) and Beast Type Song (2019), expanding out from Mimosa House’s current exhibition, Transfeminisms Chapter II: Radical Imagination.
Following the screening, the artist will join art historian and researcher Gabe Beckhurst for a discussion. Their conversation with consider the ruin as both a metaphorical and material site where temporalities collapse, histories converge, and language is contested. This discussion will shed light on filmmaking as a feminist and decolonial methodology, and its capacity to shape the politics of the present and possibilities of the future.
Programme:
Introduction
Sophia Al-Maria, Beast Type Song, 2019, 38 mins
Sophia Al-Maria, Tiger Strikes Red, 2022, 23 mins
Intermission, 5 mins
Sophia Al-Maria and Gabe Beckhurst in Conversation + Audience Q&A, 50mins
