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Ichi: Marks in Time

In 1911, anthropologist Northcote Thomas made a study of the Igbo-speaking people of Nigeria. 110 years later, the return of Thomas’s photographs of men with facial scarification marks called ‘ichi’ inspired a cultural revival among the custodians of this controversial art form. In this creative documentary, made collaboratively with the community, the descendants of those photographed tell the story of their ancestors’ migrations and their profession as traditional ‘tattooers’.

Ichi: Marks in Time

NR 2023
Worldheritage - the Palace and its Fortress

Organised groups or individual visitors with or without a guide. A beautiful and well-preserved palace in Berlin is frequented by tourists who visit its chambers, admire the paintings and walk around the meticulously well-tended garden, while thousands kilometres away there stands a dilapidated fortress. It is also visited by groups, which are patiently instructed by a guide as to why such a unique building was erected in Ghana. Moritz Siebert’s film is a remarkable documentary essay. On the example of the two eponymous buildings, the director has managed to capture the essence of colonialism.

Worldheritage - the Palace and its Fortress

NR 2023
or, granite, gneiss, glace

In the heart of the mountains, the most precious minerals are hidden in the stone. Some people read the history of our universe in the rock folds, while others see signs of possible veins they could exploit. If concentrations were once too low to generate profit, we could be sure they won't be one day soon. This panoramic of summits and glaciers that draw the Meije overlap in the Ecrins. We slide from 2668 m to 3357 m altitude. The rock here is granite and gneiss. Bathed in gold, it releases light and vibrates with thousands of colors.

or, granite, gneiss, glace

NR 2023
Future Comes at the Right Time

Today, sexual freedom and gender self-determination are punishable by arrest or death in several countries. This short film tells the story of Nelson and his escape to Italy after a violent assault. He was born 25 years ago in Benin City, one of the most unstable areas of Nigeria. In 2018, the territorial commission that examined his case found his testimony insufficiently credible and rejected his application for international protection. In 2021, Nelson appealed to the Venice Tribunal. While awaiting his verdict, which may take months, Nelson spends his days working, hanging out with friends and making music, hoping to one day become a great singer.

Future Comes at the Right Time

NR 2023
Ours they are

Nuestras son (Ours they are) takes stones as the axis to talk about a series of issues related to memory, the body and space. To take a stone and keep it is understood as a gesture that seeks to collect a part of reality. An apparently arbitrary gesture that hides a way of understanding our surroundings, of remembering certain movements and incarnated memories. A deposit of sediments that goes beyond its materiality and that intertwines with with other corporal and landscape materialities, that give rise to the exchange and the desire to mark an imprint on everything that accompanies us. Our hands guide us as mediators between the different textures of the landscape and are established as a link between that which can be touched and remembered.

Ours they are

NR 2023
Three Trees Don't Make A Forest

For little money, a used kitchen worktop changes its owner and environment. Starting at the older, refurbished middle-class buildings of Prenzlauer Berg, going past the hip ice cream parlours with tussled Hawaiian sunshades, a boy and a woman in her twenties are carrying the newly purchased and slightly dilapidated worktop to the fringes of Berlin. The high summer midday heat makes the sweat roll into their eyes and the noise of the construction sites swallows the last speech fragments as the lines of cars pushes them into ever smaller corridors. Three Trees Don’t Make a Forest subtly describes a classist and neoliberal city architecture which develops a centrifugal force that inevitably pushes the precariously living inhabitants to the outside.

Three Trees Don't Make A Forest

NR 2023
Future Tense: Conversations at Manchester Museum

A curator and a community activist discuss their approaches to collaborative community work and their visions for decolonising the Manchester Museum’s Africa collection. Featuring contributions from curator Dr. Njabulo Chipangura and peace activist Councillor Erinma Bell MBE, the film situates the conversation within broader debates on restitution and colonial legacies in UK museums. A creative intervention by Manchester-born artist and poet Rochá Dawkins connects the museum’s past, present, and future.

Future Tense: Conversations at Manchester Museum

NR 2023