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.

CONTACT

Ellie GA

gaelliega@gmail.com

Screening Details

  • Date/Time

  • Venue

    Oldham Theatre

  • Runtime

    69 mins

  • Online Q&A available on YouTube (coming soon)

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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.

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