WAVE 4: PROGRAM 2
Sunday, May 12 at 11:15 AM
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Ave, New York, NY
Abefele
Amir George
6 min
Abefele is a meditation on artistic and spiritual duality interpreted through the sport of fencing.
—Amir George
On the Battlefield
Little Egypt Collective
16 min
The first release by Little Egypt Collective stages a sound recordist reconnecting with the flat fields where once stood Pyramid Courts – the housing projects that formed the heart of the Black community of the Little Egypt region of southern Illinois. —Little Egypt Collective
The Little Egypt Collective is Theresa Delsoin, Lisa Marie Malloy, J.P. Sniadecki, Ray Whitaker.
Map to the Sirens
Demetrius Antonio Lewis
14 min
By way of Atlanta, Georgia’s railway, oral histories from local rideshare drivers with urban landscapes uncover the post-industrial American South and its fraught history with labor and space.
—Demetrius Antonio Lewis
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Daphne Xu
9 min
The ping pong table at Seward Park in New York City and the in-between space of a Cold War. An immigration lawyer advises on how to tell the truth. —Daphne Xu
Khabur
Nafis Fathollahzadeh
30 min
Khabur, the longest tributary of the Euphrates in Northeastern Syria, has gone through drastic changes in the last decades resulting in its dry-out since 2019.
'Khabur' departs from Tell Halaf (an archaeological site in the valley of the Khabur River) and follows the journey of the archeological collection towards Berlin where it has resided since 1930. It traces the circulation of violence in different times and contexts along the Khabur River and engages with the economic and political power relations that have been transforming the landscape of the region, displacing beings, their belongings, and herstories.
The film addresses photography and archeology as two disciplines emerging from the colonial-imperial enterprise, critically engaging with the imperial grammar of photographic archives, and examining the ways it could be recycled, reimagined, and rehearsed.
—Nafis Fathollahzadeh