April

We’re excited to share four films that rework and reassemble archives to narrate
histories of political resistance,
migration, and ecological extraction.

Tune into a conversation above between the 4 artists featured in this programme - Amel, Laith, Sana and Leena. The discussion touched on strategies of subverting colonial/state archives, visual representations of violence, and community (counter-)archiving as a form of resistance and memory-making.

  • Amel Moyersoen

    Amel Moyersoen is an Algerian-Belgian visual artist, moving image art curator and researcher based in London, with a focus on diasporic histories of resistance and the inter-generational transmission of memory. Her work delves into archival practices within visual art, often exploring the intersection of personal and collective narratives. A graduate of the Other Cinemas film school, she is also affiliated with LUX Moving Image London and the SAFAR Futures Young Curators program. Her work often blends extensive research and moving image, creating evocative, memory-driven art forms. Her film 'afraid of losing the echos' (2023) has been shown in London and Brussels and was selected for the System D Festival 2023, and MOOOV Festival 2024.

  • afraid of losing the echos

    afraid of losing the echos is an archive film and visual poem
    calling to remember the histories and continued resistance against
    police violence in Brussels, it is a testament to those who resist and persist.

  • Laith Elzubaidi

    Laith Elzubaidi is a British-Iraqi Comedy and Drama
    Screenwriter based in London. He is also the founder
    of the British-Arab Writers Group. He was selected
    from 1400 applicants for the BBC Comedy Collective
    Supercharged Bursary Scheme; winning 15k (including
    a 5k development grant) and paid shadowing oppor-
    tunities on BBC productions’ writers rooms. He has
    recently won Soho Theatre’s annual playwriting comp-
    etition, the ‘Tony Craze Award’, for his play ‘Insane
    Asylum Seekers’. He is a producer at the Arts charity
    Counterpoints Arts- spearheading their Pop Culture
    and Social Change programme. He runs the biggest
    collective of British-Arab writers in the UK: the ‘British
    Arab Writers Group’ - They host and facilitate writers
    rooms, talks from industry figures, and events that seek
    to connect the creative diaspora and take their member's
    craft to the next level. They currently have over 130
    members across the UK.

  • Half A Milion: On the 20th Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq

    A film of contrasts and divergent
    realities that highlights the cost of
    imperialist expansions: stolen childhoods
    and deferred futures.

  • Sana Badri

    Sana Badri is a British-Tunisian artist.
    Her motivation to create images is
    primarily to build and maintain
    meaningful connections with her
    subjects, and foster a visual dialogue
    that speaks to those inside those communities.

    She has been exhibited at the V&A,
    published by the V&A, elephant magazine,
    OOMK zine and Huck online.

  • Worth It

    This short explores the textures of feelings
    surrounding the pains and joys of diaspora,
    exile, and migration

  • Leena Habiballa

    Leena Habiballa is artist and cultural worker interesed in visual/
    material cultures and community filmmaking/exhibition models.
    She is currently Assistant producer at Other Cinemas and a
    member of the arist workers’ cooperative not/nowhere.

  • Dead As A Dodo

    Dead As A Dodo (2022) lays bare the settler colonial mythology at the heart of the popular narrative of the Dodo’s extinction. By drawing on archival material and the Dodo’s apparition the film performs a sensory haunting, reviving the spaces between life and death that have been shaped by settler violence into a value-forming exercise. This work is inspired by and is in conversation with a book of poems titled “A Theory of Birds” by the Palestinian-American poet Zaina Alsous.