Film Screening + Artist Conversation
Come view In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain (2016) and Familiar Phantoms (2023). Filmmakers Larissa Sansour and Søren Lindstrong> will be in conversation with Emerson Assistant Professor and Filmmaker Julia Halperin afterwards. Film is co-presented with
Date: Tuesday, February 4, 7-9:30pm. Doors open at 6:30pm.
Location: Bright Family Screening Room, 559 Washington St. Boston, Ma, 02111
Born in East Jerusalem, Sansour (PS/DK) studied Fine Art in Copenhagen, London and New York.
She represented Denmark at the 58th Venice Biennale.
Recent solo exhibitions include Whitworth Gallery in Manchester, KINDL in Berlin, Copenhagen Contemporary in Denmark and Dar El-Nimer in Beirut.
She lives and works in London.
Søren Lind is a Danish author, director and visual artist.
With a background in philosophy, Lind wrote books on mind, language and understanding before turning to art, film and fiction. He has published novels, shorts story collections. His children’s books are translated into several languages.
Lind screens and exhibits his films at museums, galleries and film festivals worldwide. His work was shown at the Danish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennial. Other recent venues and festivals include the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester, KINDL in Berlin, Copenhagen Contemporary (DK), International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) and BFI London Film Festival (UK).
He lives and works in London.
Post-screening discussion:
Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind with Julia Halperin
Julia Halperin is a filmmaker who works in multiple formats. Her cinematic interests include twisting and elevating genre, using landscape to externalize character, and disrupting narrative expectations.
Her short films and video installations have screened widely in the U.S. and abroad and have received support from Yaddo, the Texas Filmmaker's Production Fund, the Liberace Foundation, the Hershey Foundation, City of Austin Cultural Contracts and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain
28 min, Color, Sound, 2016
Familiar Phantoms
27 min, Color, Sound, 2023
Total: 67 mins
Familiar Phantoms
27 min, Color, Sound, 2023
Familiar Phantoms is an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma. Blending live action, special effects, private family photos and archival footage, the film explores the impact on fiction on the creation and reinterpretation of memory. Familiar Phantoms is inspired by anecdotes from my family history and my old childhood in Bethlehem, making it my most personal film to date. Shot in a derelict mansion and a black studio, the film oscillates between slow, fluid exploratory sequences and fast-paced collages of objects, mementos, family photos and Super 8 footage, its visuals and editing mimicking the actual workings of memory, constantly revisiting the same imagery alongside new fragments in search of meaning – while alternating between storytelling and ruminations on memory.
In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain
28 min, Color, Sound, 2016
In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain resides in the cross-section between sci-fi, archaeology and politics. Combining live motion and CGI, the film explores the role of myth for history, fact and national identity.
A narrative resistance group makes underground deposits of elaborate porcelain - suggested to belong to an entirely fictional civilisation. Their aim is to influence history and support future claims to their vanishing lands. Once unearthed, this tableware will prove the existence of this counterfeit people. By implementing a myth of its own, their work becomes a historical intervention - de facto creating a nation.
In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain, Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind, 2016
Summer’s Last Moons
16mm, 3 min, Color, Sound, 2018
As summer comes to an end, the moon reaches towards becoming full. Over three nights the moon is captured on film through in-camera editing and multiple exposures. The moons of different nights come together in the frame, to interact and play with one another, while official NASA sound recordings from space bring us closer.