Screening
Germinate: Short films from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey
03 Apr 2024 – 04 Apr 2024
Firstsite
Colchester, United Kingdom
Screening
Platform Asia: Germinate
20 Mar 2024
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
£3
Address
- 40 Duke Street
- Brighton
- BN1 1AG
- United Kingdom
Event map
Germinate is a touring programme featuring artists’ film and video works by seven filmmakers from West Asia, including artists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Türkiye. It establishes connections between the diverse ecologies, industries, people, and folklore of the South Caucasus.
About
From mockumentary to triptych cinema, these storytelling forms offer an immersive experience that navigates between the past and present landscapes of post-Soviet states. Through the captivating aesthetics of West Asian cinema, these films resonate with the collective desire for transformation, germinating in the soil of the Black Sea and sowing seeds of ancestral reclamation and liberation.
Germinate marks Platform Asia’s inaugural touring programme of West Asian art as part of a new series with the same title.
We recommend pre-booking tickets to secure your seats.
Programme:
Sophio Medoidze, Black sea is really black, 2015, 6 mins
Orkhan Huseynov & Saliou Traoré, Flowers of North America, 2018, 3:36 mins
Ela Kazdal, Leke, 2022, 3:25 mins
Kamee Abrahamian, Ensouled, 2023, 8 mins
Tekla Aslanishvili & Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Stone of Hell, 2021, 24 mins
Anahid Yahjian, Corpus Callosum, 2014-16, 12:20 mins
Image credit: Still from Corpus Callosum by Anahid Yahjian (2014-16).
Curated and produced by Platform Asia. Supported by Arts Council England.
