Agenda

This short video essay, created at the request of the Singapore Art Museum, explores how Palestinian gamers mimic life under colonial occupation in Los Santos as a virtual proxy of the state of Palestine. 

Film Fest Ghent presents a retrospective of Portuguese filmmaker and writer Isadora Neves Marques. Her oeuvre addresses many urgent themes, such as biopolitics, gender, and technology. She calls her work subtle sci-fi that, through criticism, attempts to imagine a better future.

On the intersection between performance and film, Palestinian filmmaker Noor Abed’s work explores human relationships. For example, our songs were ready for all wars to come is an 8mm footage choreography of playing women whose stories are linked by communal mourning rituals.

Saleh Kashefi is an Iranian filmmaker who has taken refuge in Switzerland. He decides to attack Ali Khamanei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, out of a desire to “play a role” in the uprising in his native country because “he has affected every second of [his] life.”

Thai Golden Palm winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker and visual artist. Just like most of his enigmatic oeuvre, this short video work is lyrical and dreamlike. Emerald places two characters from the 1906 Buddhist novel The Pilgrim Kamanita against the backdrop of the Morakot, a Bangkok hotel in the early 1980s, a time of rapid economic development and the arrival of Cambodian refugees in Thailand.