Undercurrent
Quarries
Ellie GA Portugal, Sweden, France 40 mins PG Asian Premiere
Undercurrent – Double Bill
This film will be screened together with In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain
FILM SYNOPSIS
Photographic transparencies and documentary footage tell overlooked stories of labour, from prehistoric tools to Portuguese stonemasonry.
Stories about stones ground this essay film: archaeological discoveries of prehistoric tools, sculptures commemorating colonial wars, and traditional paving techniques. Interwoven are narratives including Ga’s relationship with her brother and a quest arising from an out-of-print book.
The three-part screen shows Ga’s hands manipulating photographic transparencies over lightboxes. Using her movements to create visual meaning, the film tells of human labour excluded from world histories: the drudgery of communist re-education camps, an artist’s antifascist engravings, and stone artisans of pavements in Lisbon and former Portuguese colonies. These counter-narratives resist prevailing frameworks of progress and domination.
This programme is brought to you with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Singapore.
FILM INFO
FILM CREDITS
Ellie GA
Ellie GA is an American artist whose videos and performances investigate social issues in unexpected contexts. Her work has been collected by the Guggenheim and the Whitney museums in New York and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, among others. She received the Guggenheim Fellowship in Film and Video in 2022.
Screening Details
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Key points to note
The total programme rating for DOUBLE BILL- In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain + Quarries, is PG.
Screened together
Undercurrent - Double Bill
Screened together
Undercurrent - Double Bill
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