Leeds-based Pavilion presents a free rare screening of films by two women film-makers, followed by a conversation with one of them, artist Rehana Zaman, and curator and writer Chandra Frank.
Showing as part of Interwoven Histories, a two-year project addressing the legacy of migration and the textiles industry in Leeds, the films in Pavilion’s screening each explore themes of identity and feelings of displacement.
Zaman’s Tell me the story Of all these things draws powerfully on intimate conversations between the director and her two sisters, interweaving staged, performed gestures with ominous animated visions of metamorphosis and utilising found footage created for Prevent, the government’s e-learning initiative designed to tackle radicalisation.
Rooted in the experiences of British Muslim women, Zaman’s film is screened alongside Dreaming Rivers which explores similar themes from a black perspective. Directed by Martina Attille, it is a bittersweet drama centred on migration, dislocation and the Windrush Generation. The estranged husband and children of a Caribbean woman, who they abandoned to a lonely death in her one-room flat, are reunited at her funeral. As they recount their stories, their fragmented memories tell of a life lived, but only partly remembered.
Tell me the story Of all these things: Rehana Zaman in conversation with Chandra Frank is at Leeds Library, Commercial Street on Friday 5 May 2017, 6–8pm
Admission is free, but booking is essential. More information here.