Experimenta Works in Progress presentation + discussion

Selected artist filmmakers will present their projects in different stages of development – from research to post-production. Here we hope to find community, generate mutual support, share open feedback and discover together an expanded notion of film culture.

Selected projects are:

15 Iranian Years (Adonia Bouchehri)

Adonia Bouchehri's work explores our connection to physical and imagined spaces, examining how the overlapping and blurred boundaries intertwine, as well as how they shape and challenge our understanding of reality. 15 Iranian Years looks at Bouchehri's mother's history, shaped by her stories and memories - starting from her birth in Iran in 1963 to her departure in 1979 to the imagined Iran.

Ctrl+z (Parwana Haydar)

Parwana Haydar is a moving image artist and curator based in London. Her work deals with memory, archives and displacement through video collages, digital art and new technologies. CTRL + Z is about the stories that shape us and reflects on the ways we reshape them. In the form of a video collage, this work explores collective amnesia, selective memory and oral histories of diasporic communities from Afghanistan.

The Krueger Institute (Mahenderpal Sorya)

Mahenderpal Sorya's practice spans a broad range of media including moving image, sculpture, painting, performance and social engagement. Expanding his research on memory and trauma, The Krueger Institute (working title) unearths recollections of childhood nightmares and explores the connection between trauma, diasporic memory, and film spectatorship via the iconic American horror film character, Freddy Krueger.

I Am a Dale (Edd Carr)

Edd Carr is an artist based in the UK. Adapting sustainable photographic processes into moving image, his work depicts trauma in relation to ecological crises. I Am a Dale is a moving image series exploring rural England, blending memory, fiction, ecology, and trauma to challenge idyllic views of the landscape.

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