ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES is back with a new slate of partners for 2023! Co-curator Cíntia Gil and UnionDocs are delighted to join hands with Taiwan International Documentary Festival while they are ON TOUR to present a stellar and urgent program: MEANS OF ORDINARY DISRUPTION. Featuring the astonishing DRY GROUND BURNING (MATO SECO EM CHAMAS), from Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós with HSU Hui-jus contemplative Temporary, we’ll stage a screening and in-depth online Study Group that will explore a host of questions with our growing international community in a dynamic format.
Join us in asking how territories can carry the history of the management and segregation of bodies, knowledge, resources, words, imaginations, and fundamentally reveal modes of societal organization by watching these two films together that disrupt such histories, and reveal radical, or alternative forms of territoriality.
In HSU Hui-ju’s TEMPORARY, an abandoned factory is populated by the gestures and presence of precarious laborers and their particular form of making sense of place and time. While in Joana Pimenta’s and Adirley Queirós’ DRY GROUND BURNING, sisters Léa and Chitara build rule and meaning anew in their area of Ceilândia, in the outskirts of the Brazilian capital.
What can we learn from this gang of women who own the night and drill oil from their backyard to build a grassroots political movement?
These films conjure an ethics of inevitability, an inevitable power of mass disruption.
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