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Shorts: Collapse in Time and Place + Q&A

Chronic Youth Film Festival

,Cinema 2
Still from Wintermelon

A collage of shorts from emerging filmmakers bringing together films exploring the ever-changing relationship between place and aspects of identity.

Through a range of personal and collective journeys, filmmakers seek to navigate the complexities of subjective memories, untold histories and how these shape their communities. Experimenting with forms including archival footage, home movies and animation, the films act as a collapse in temporalities, visually connecting the past with present day issues on an individual and societal scale.

Live Post-screening Q&A discussion with filmmakers and directors: Christina Poon (Wintermelon), Sophie Huckfield (Factories Leaving the Worker), Miro Alleyne-McCarthy (Slay The Beast from A State of Peace), Ikram Ahmed (Barry the Beekeeper), Layla Madanat and Eleanor Nawal (dirs. Mosaic)

 

Tagged with: Cinema Chronic Youth 2023

72 mins + Q&A

This screening is part of Chronic Youth Film Festival 2023.

Programme

Love, Dad

Czech Republic | 2021 | Dir Diana Cam Van Nguyen | 13min

A personal essay about ties and gaps between a child and a parent as the filmmaker rediscovers letters her dad used to write her from prison.

 

Wintermelon

UK | 2022 | Dir Christina Poon | 6min

Weaving together VHS-8 footage and video portraits, the varying perspectives of two siblings spark dialogues in shifting British-Chinese identities.

 

Factories leaving the worker

UK | 2022 | Dir Sophie Huckfield | 7min

Exploring the promises of nationalisation, the fight against privatisation of public services, alongside the legacies of Trade Unionism in the UK.

 

Kelasi

Belgium | 2021 | Dir Fransix Tenda Lomba | 10min

A personal animation that delves into the history of the Congolese educational system from the colonial era to the present-day.

Slay The Beast from A State of Peace

UK | 2023 | Dir Miro Alleyne-McCarthy | 8min

A boy who finds love among the chaos of the city and an older man who makes peace with the beast.

 

Salt in the Wounds

UK | 2022 | Dir Tom Stockley | 4min

A poet reflects on their experience of queer visibility and class in a deprived coastal town.

 

Barry the Beekeeper

UK | 2022 | Dir Ikram Ahmed | 10min

Jamaican-born beekeeper Barry contemplates on the cycle of life, the centrality of community and bees to human existence.

 

Mosaic

UK | 2021 | Dirs Layla Madanat, Eleanor Nawal | 15min

A fragmented collage film highlighting the young people of the SWANA+ diaspora's relationship to identity and home.

Cinema 2

Location
Barbican Cinema 2 & 3 are located on Beech Street, a short walk from the Barbican’s Silk Street entrance. From Silk Street, you’ll see a zebra crossing that will take you across the road to the venue. 

Address
Beech Street
London
EC2Y 8DS

Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ‘Your Visit’ or book your car parking space in advance.