COLONIALISM AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS - WEEKENDER
COLONIALISM AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS - WEEKENDER
By the Water
Friday 11th April
6:30pm - Late
To kick it all off, we are screening three short films which trace the flow of labour and extraction through rivers, oceans and water bodies. Together these films ask how we confront and undo legacies of colonialism and ecological devastation and what we can learn from waters which find their way back.
a river holds a perfect memory (2024) by Hope Strickland
Night Fishing with Ancestors (2023) by Karrabing Collective
4 Rivers (2018) by Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva
Agri/Cultural Resistances
Saturday 12th of April
12:00pm
A Daily Practice / A Form of Resistance
A screening and tea-making workshop hosted by Saeed Taji Farouky with Gamze Şanlı
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing (2024) by Theo Panagopoulos
We Would be Freer (2023) by Ranna Nazzal Hamadeh
Ahl El Thara (2025) by Vivien Sansour
Agri/Cultural Resistances
Saturday 12th April
3:00pm
Witnessing: A speculative creative writing workshop by Land In Our Names
Creative Writing workshop using speculative fiction to imagine reparative responses to climate change and racial justice
Agri/Cultural Resistances
Saturday 12th April
6:30pm
Xaraasi Xanne
(2022) by Raphaël Grisey and Bouba Touré
Based on rare archives, the exemplary adventure of Somankidi Coura – an agricultural cooperative founded in Mali in 1977 by West African immigrant workers living in workers’ accommodation in France – sheds light on the violence of colonial agriculture and the ecological challenges in Africa today.
Hosted by Abiba Coulibaly
Toxic Colonialism
Sunday 13th April
12:00pm
Making the Invisible Visible
From nuclear waste on Somali coastlines and in Palestine, to air pollution in America’s petrochemical industry around the Mississippi river, these three films examine how colonialism manifests as ecological harm and asks how do we excavate and expose these harms which seek to hide?
We Have Always Known The Wind’s Direction (2019) by Inas Halabi
Life On The Horn (2020) by Mo Harawe
If toxic air is a monument to slavery, how do we take it down? (2021) by Forensic Architecture
Toxic Colonialism
Sunday 13th April
3:00pm
Panel Discussion
Understanding and depicting the connection between colonialism and environmental harm
Toxic Colonialism
Sunday 13th April
6:30pm
Amussu
(2019) by Nadir Bouhmouch | 6:30pm
Hosted by Jessica El Mal
When a Moroccan silver mine begins to siphon and pollute local aquifers, villagers occupy the water pipeline and refuse to leave. Seven years later, they remain in their ingenious solar-powered camp, weathering arrests and intimidation while waiting for divine justice.
Evening will end with a special musical performance by Sami El-Enany