Field Recordings 6 – at WORM 12-14 June

Midsummer approaches and the “long days” are soon back, but luxuriate in the cool darkness with the 6th edition of Field Recordings between 12 and 14 June. Field Recordings is a platform for experimental and anthropological film, sound, and landscape cinema. More information about the artists at the festival is found below.

And WORM is delighted to announce that limited festival pass and day tickets are NOW ON SALE VIA THIS LINK! 

To introduce the festival we have a prelude screening on Wednesday 3 June: The Sealed Soil (Khak-e Sar bé Mohr) by Marva Nabili (1977)
The Sealed Soil is a tale of female rebellion and one of the first ever Iranian films made by a female filmmaker.

In Focus: Marion Scemama and Ivana Mladenović

Featuring works by: Lawrence Abu Hamdan; Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko; Nika Autor; James Benning; David Bim; CAMP; Pablo Diserens; Faraz Fesharaki; Salomé Jashi; Stéphanie Lagarde; Oleksiy Radynski; Basma al-Sharif; Malena Szlam; Raquel Vermunt; Yuyan Wang

Field Recordings 6 brings together films, sound, and installation works that share a commitment to slow, attentive observation in moments of rupture. Across the programme, makers turn their cameras and microphones toward landscapes and communities under pressure: from the Zapata swamps of Cuba to an occupied Georgian village; from the besieged skies of Beirut to rural Iran under the Shah; from a glacier dissolving in Iceland to the Indian Ocean traversed by sailors and traders. Several works draw on archives, both personal and institutional, to recover what colonial and authoritarian regimes have tried to erase, or to engage in cross-generation conversation. Others propose alternative scales altogether, whether geological, planetary, or more-than-human, as ways of imagining survival. In addition to the screenings, the festival hosts listening and spatial practices, including a sound piece, an installation, and a newly commissioned work-in-progress by Raquel Vermunt, set on a ferry crossing the Biesbosch. Rather than a shared subject, what connects these works is a shared sensibility: an interest in the vulnerabilities of artistic practice; in the textures of everyday life under precarity; and in the politics of how, and by whom, a story is told.

Field Recordings 6 is also excited to present two in-focus programmes showcasing films by Marion Scemama and Ivana Mladenović, whose experimental bodies of work emphasise the relationship between marginalised subjectivities and place, in the disparate historical moments of 1980s New York City and present-day Romania. Scemama and Mladenović dedicate themselves to complex depictions of masculinity, and its interaction with class, race, and morality, questioning conventions of representation and disrupting the traditional dynamics between director and protagonists, while working with people who live in tension with social and political norms. Field Recordings 6 showcases rarely screened films by Scemama and Mladenović, bringing them to Dutch audiences for the first time.

Field Recordings is programmed by Marta Hryniuk and Tim Leyendekker and is supported by WORM and Gemeente Rotterdam.

www.fieldrecordings.org
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