Everything Worthwhile is Done with Other People

Screening and Q&A

Join us for a screening of Everything Worthwhile is Done with Other People (EWIDWOP) followed by a discussion with the director Rehana Zaman and members of the collective on Saturday May 4th, 3pm. Shot over the course of five years, EWIDWOP takes up the conversations, experiences and freedom dreams of a group of women affected by the carceral state, as encountered through the UK government’s hostile environment policy and prison system. This work began as a series of workshops led through Hibiscus Initiatives framed around questions of criminality, innocence and citizenship, perceived through the lens of gender, race and class. Through these sessions the technical facets of filmmaking are deconstructed through theatre games and improvisation, camera and sound recording, storytelling and testimony. A collectively authored, polyvocal hybrid film emerges, offering a small glimpse into a group’s attempt to connect and form with solidarity and love against punitive contexts that strive to diminish, reduce and disappear.

Rehana Zaman is an artist living and working in London and before that from Heckmondwike, and before that from Pakistan. Her work speaks to notions of kinship and sociality, seeking out possibilities of intimacy and transgression within hostile contexts. Conversation and cooperative methods sit at the heart of her films which extend into texts, performances and group work. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. Recent presentations include Serpentine Projects (forthcoming), BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, British Art Show 9 (Touring), ICA Miami, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Borås International Sculpture Biennial (Sweden) Artist Film International Whitechapel, London and worldwide. In 2019 she co-edited Tongues with Taylor Le Melle, published by PSS and was shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award. She is a member of not/nowhere artist workers cooperative and her films are distributed by LUX.

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This event is supported by Serpentine Galleries.