Field Recordings 5 – Day 3

Field Recordings is back! Over the weekend of November 8-9-10, you can immerse yourself in an exciting selection of contemporary anthropological film, landscape cinema and experimental sound work at WORM.
Employing a wide range of media, from 16mm analogue film, to a 360 degree camera, to an interactive audio walk through Rotterdam, the works gathered in the programme touch on a multiplicity of themes. We move from evolution and extinction, narrated by rocks (Last Things, Deborah Stratman), to debates between proponents of traditional and colonial law, inherited from European occupation (Al Djanat, Chloé Aïcha Boro), to an auto-ethnographic portrayal of the Nenets way of life (Nedarma, Anastasia Lapsui & Markku Lehmuskallio) to the consequences of French nuclear testing in colonial era Algeria (And still, it remains, Arwa Aburawa & Turab Shah). Negotiation – whether between two sides of a conflict, or the settlement of a difficult family history – is a common thread.
The programme of Field Recordings 5 engages with various marginalised narratives, often from the perceived peripheries, and is made with an eye on fostering conversations between seemingly disparate geographical and political contexts. As in previous years, we’re featuring many international filmmakers, and many of them will be present at the screenings.
DAY 3 tickets: Early Bird Day ticket €15 , Regular Day ticket €18.50 / Single screening ticket – €10 / Cineville valid at the door & online on the day starting at 10am.
DAY 3 PROGRAMME
11:30 – 13:30 THINKING THROUGH EDITING AND SOUND – a conversation with Nathalie Alonso Casale
In this talk, director and editor Nathalie Alonso Casale will guide us through her world of film and sound editing. Often intimate and lengthy, editing is a process whose ins and outs are only known to the few people in the editing booth, making it an opaque and overlooked process. During the talk Nathalie Alonso Casale will share her experiences with a view to learning together and offering insight into an aspect of filmmaking that usually stays “behind the scenes”. Drawing on clips from films she has edited, as well as those by other filmmakers, she will demonstrate how image and sound can enhance and weaken each other, or create new meanings when combined. Moderated by Tim Leyendekker, co-programmer of Field Recordings, the conversation will include fragments from works by Chris Marker, Fiona Tan, and others, as well as City of Poets by Sara Rajaei, which Nathalie edited and is also featured in Field Recordings 5.
Nathalie Alonso Casale is a filmmaker, editor and writer based in Rotterdam. She has been making films since she was 16 years old, shifting roles between acting, directing, producing and editing. Nathalie has edited fiction, documentary and experimental works, collaborating with filmmakers such as Saodat Ismailova, Jos de Putter, Urszula Antoniak, Fiona Tan and Sara Rajaei.
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14:30 – 16:15 SHORTS #3
With short films by Ewelina Rosińska, Vasyl Lyakh, Daniel Jacoby and Sara Rajaei. With extensive use of pre-digital techniques and archival materials, the filmmakers gathered in this programme turn their gaze inwards, towards their youth, kin or homes, often meditating on something to which a return is impossible, whether due to forces of occupation, authoritarianism, or the passage of time. The films unveil hidden or silenced histories that shape generations, with the filmmakers describing their own biographies against the backdrop of larger socio-political processes, and sometimes daring to imagine utopian futures.
Programme: Ewelina Rosińska – Ashes by name is man, 20 min, 2023 // Sara Rajaei – City of Poets, 22 min, 2024 // Vasyl (Tkachenko) Lyakh – Kharaltida (In the yard), 20 min, 2023 // Daniel Jacoby – 315, 14 min, 2023
Followed by a Q&A with Sara Rajaei and Daniel Jacoby.
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16:45 – 18:45 ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF NOAH PIUGATTUK by Zacharias Kunuk
2019, Canada, 111 min., Inuktitut, English and French with English subtitles
This film dramatises the true story of Noah Piugattuk, an Inuk hunter, over the course of one day in 1961, when he was approached by a Canadian government agent who encouraged him to give up his traditional Inuit lifestyle and assimilate into a normative Canadian settlement. The film portrays a dramatic dilemma about life choices imposed on indigenous communities by the Canadian authorities.
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20:00 – 22:30 THE HUMAN SURGE 3 by Eduardo Williams
2023, Argentina/Portugal/Netherlands/Taiwan/Brazil/Hong Kong/Sri Lanka/Peru, 120 min., Spanish, English, Mandarin, Sinhalese, Tamil, with English subtitles
In a continuation of The Human Surge 1, a 360-degree camera observes groups of friends from different parts of the world interact in the downtime between work, drifting and existing in constant motion along with the camera. Filmed in Taiwan, Sri Lanka, and Peru, the film moves freely between spaces and relationships. Made without a predetermined script, the film allows for the protagonists to express vulnerabilities and explore liminal, otherworldly states.
Followed by a Q&A with Eduardo Williams.
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11:30 – 23:30 – INSTALLATION: The Bodhi Tree in Bosch’s Garden
by Maia Liu
in collaboration with Yezi Lin and Leopold Liu
2-channel video installation, 2024, Netherlands, English and Mandarin with English subtitles
The Bodhi Tree in Bosch’s Garden is a video installation which traces Liu’s exploration of her father’s archive of art made in the 1990s during his time in Europe. In her attempt to grasp the meaning of his works and accompanying notes, she relies on the cultural mediation of her best friend Yezi, whose diasporic experience strongly resonates with that of Liu’s father (whom she herself barely knows). The installation offers a playful yet complex interplay of appropriation, projection, intimidation, and admiration among the three characters — the father’s artworks, the daughter, and her friend.
ABOUT FIELD RECORDINGS
Founded in 2018, Field Recordings is a platform for screening, discussing and practicing critical forms of fieldwork – from sensory ethnographies and experimental documentaries to live sound performances and situated praxes of listening. The programme is curated by Tim Leyendekker and Marta Hryniuk.
FULL PROGRAMME:
Field Recordings 5 DAY 1 | 8 nov
Field Recordings 5 DAY 2 | 9 nov
Field Recordings 5 DAY 3 | 10 nov