Minevissam (I am writing)
2023, 18’ - 16mm & super 8 to digital.
Minevissam maps the journeys of various characters, whose pasts continue to echo through other times and places. As they search for better words and worlds, a poet, a painter and an owl attempt to translate their tales for and with each other.
and the daughter began to tell a story
about seeing when colours remain silent to you
about listening, when words refuse blooming anew
2023, 18’ - 16mm & super 8 to digital.
Minevissam maps the journeys of various characters, whose pasts continue to echo through other times and places. As they search for better words and worlds, a poet, a painter and an owl attempt to translate their tales for and with each other.
and the daughter began to tell a story
about seeing when colours remain silent to you
about listening, when words refuse blooming anew
Past screening:
7th December 2024, ‘Harkat 16mm Film Festival’, Mumbai.
17th August 2024, Art Station Samarkand, ‘Janub Shamoli Festival’ by maqaal collective, Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
24th + 25th July 2024, Lago Film Fest ‘Princìpî Award’, Revine Lago, Italy.
3rd July 2024, ‘On Listening’, three short films by Niki Kohandel at Other Cinemas, Metroland Studios, London.
28th April 2024, Open City Documentary Festival,‘Combined programme: I am writing’ at Genesis Cinema London. Accompanied by ‘Intimate Inscriptions, four films on writing’, text by Hannah Bonner.
14th October 2023, BFI London Film Festival, ‘Everything worthwile is done with other people’ at ICA London (world premiere).