Screening

Family

Yu Chin TSENG began with an experience of solitude, imprisonment and withdrawal. Children hidden under their beds would observe the scene and search for comfort. Bobur ISMAILOV films a woman progressively removing pieces of fabric and veils from her body, to show her face to the world and discover all that is around her. Almagul Menlibaeva MENLIBAYEVA films a nomadic family in Kazakhstan during a shaman ritual meant to help nomads take root. Emmanuelle ANTILLE shows the special relationship between a woman and her domestic space. With a ball of strings, she threads her apartment, making visible a strange internal geometry. The apartment becomes a mental space that mirrors the psyche. Ana OPALIC sets a mother and her daughter face to face. Bea DE VISSER adapts a monologue from Dario Fo’s La Mamma Fricchettona. In a disused warehouse, a woman tells how she went from being a devoted mother to a state of independence. Lena Maria THUERING, exploring the relationship between documentary and fiction, films the empty walls of a house where a voice recounts 50 years of the life of a family. Ken JACOBS edits images of his family in Roma in the 1980s, a perfect day when, as they say, “nothing happens.” Flo is a film star, Nisi a thoughtful child and Aza runs behind her stroller.