Field Recordings 6 – Day 1

Field Recordings is back! Over the weekend of June 12-13-14, you can immerse yourself in a selection of contemporary anthropological film, landscape cinema and experimental sound work at WORM.

A ticket to our opening night gives access to a short film programme, opening drinks, and a feature film.

The evening begins with what the world is made of, ice, forest, oil, rock, and the people who make it in turn. It ends on the water, with CAMP’s From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf and the sailors who filmed it. For more on the works and their makers, please visit www.fieldrecordings.org.

19:30 – 21:00 Short Films 1

melt morphemes (supraglacial)
by Pablo Diserens, 6 min, sound piece, 2025
A listening piece that shifts our sense of scale to that of a glacier. Drawn from underwater recordings of the melting Sólheimajökull in Iceland, where air trapped for centuries escapes in bursts of strange, animalistic sound.

Extra Life (and Decay)
by Stéphanie Lagarde, 21 min, HD video, 2025, French with English SDH
A polyphonic narrator, filmmaker, parent, forest, insects, fungi, childcare worker, refuses labour exploitation and calls for collective resistance. The film traces the link between the invention of the nuclear family and the managed forest plot, and celebrates hospitality against the politics of isolation.

Green Gray Black Brown
by Yuyan Wang, 11 min, HD video, South Korea / China / France, 2024, no dialogue with English SDH
A synthetic realm bound together by a dark, oily slime, where Jurassic-era flora merges with plastic plants for shopping malls. Petroleum opens a portal into the logic of petro-capitalism and the fantasies of techno-solutionism.

Where Russia Ends
by Oleksiy Radynski, 25 min, 35mm transferred to digital, Ukraine, 2024, Ukrainian with English subtitles
An essayistic road movie built from film materials found in a Kyiv studio in 2022, documenting 1980s Ukrainian expeditions to Siberia and the Far North. A recovery of erased histories of Russian settler colonialism and its imperial wars.

Archipelago of Earthen Bones—To Bunya
by Malena Szlam, 20 min, 16mm transferred to digital, Australia / Canada / Chile, 2024, no dialogue
Filmed on 16mm and edited in-camera through multiple exposures, the film maps geological and volcanic time across ancient Australian landforms, from the Bunya Mountains to the remains of the Gondwana Rainforest.

21:00 – 21:30 Opening Drinks

21:30 – 22:55 Feature Film

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
by CAMP, 83 min, mixed digital camcorder, VHS-C and cell phone video, transferred to HD, 2013, Kutchi / Arabic / Urdu / Hindi with English subtitles
A vast journey across the Western Indian Ocean, made over four years of friendship between CAMP and a group of sailors from the Gulf of Kutch. As they cross from Pakistan and southern Iran through the Persian and Aden Gulfs, they show us a world cut into many pieces, not easily bridged by nostalgics or nationalists, and make videos of their own, sometimes set to song.

Includes online Q&A with Shaina Anand

Cineville valid at the door and online on the day of the screening!