Experimenta

The Treasury of Human Inheritance

Experimenting with radical forms of self and cohabitation, the four films in this programme ask us to rethink our understandings of empathy and propose different possibilities of care work.

A Stream of Echoes

Confronting master narratives and calling on oral histories, this programme explores encounters with the archive across colonial collections, personal testimonies and whispered counter-narratives.

Right in the Substance of Them a Trace of What Happened

Unruly and transient paranormal phenomena surface in this programme. From breakthrough moments, hints of the imperceptible are received, with traces left for further excavation. Occasionally, difficult realities are brought into focus by the process.

Experimenta Works in Progress presentation + discussion

Everyone is welcome to join Experimenta’s new initiative, which celebrates process and collaboration.

Direct Action

Celebrated filmmakers Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell capture the radical visions of environmental activists ZAD (Zone à Défendre) as embodied in their everyday communal living.

A Fidai Film

Composed of archival fragments, A Fidai Film reconstructs the visual memory of Palestine, reclaiming images that were plundered from the Palestine Research Centre in Beirut in 1982.

Collective Summoning

Three films about ritual, myth and national history from Palestine, Thailand and Iran.

Small Hours of the Night

Composed of arresting 16mm close-ups, Daniel Hui’s sombre chamber piece implores us to find connections between divergent acts of political dissidence across history.