“Frame of Representation” ICA Film Festival / London

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Francesco Montagner Boyhood, 2021. Still. 93′. Courtesy of the artist.

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Francesco Montagner Boyhood, 2021. Still. 93′. Courtesy of the artist.

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Adirley Queirós & Joana Pimenta, Dry Ground Burning, 2022. Still. 153′. Courtesy of the artists.

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Adirley Queirós & Joana Pimenta, Dry Ground Burning, 2022. Still. 153′. Courtesy of the artists.

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Adirley Queirós & Joana Pimenta, Dry Ground Burning, 2022. Still. 153′. Courtesy of the artists.

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Arnaud des Pallières, Journal of America (Journal d’Amérique), 2022. Still. 112′. Courtesy of the artist.

The seventh edition of ICA Film Festival, “Frame of Representation” has been conceived around the theme of Communality. The festival includes eight days of screenings, discussions, workshops, experiments in sound, live performances and other activities that all explore the idea of communality through different fields of practice.

The 2022 edition investigates how filmmaking can provide both foundation and inspiration for collective action. The 14 premieres address the cinema of the real and its practice as spaces within a larger community that encompasses both filmmakers and their audiences, considering the place and responsibilities of the filmmaker within that community. The festival continues to address film presentation as
a space to rethink the terms of engagement and collaboration through forms of imagination, care and solidarity.

FoR22 celebrates collective action and artistic endeavour. Through the focus on communality, it offers a stage for both engagement and reflection, and looks at documentation and representation as an ensemble of practices through which audiences can shape and elicit their own meanings, causes and effects. The festival shows how interaction with others can provoke the proliferation of new
communal spaces, allowing each and any person to find their own space, form of representation and means of artistic production while in conversation with other members of their communities.

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Miryam Charles, This House (Cette Maison), 2022. Still. 75′. Courtesy of the artist.

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Rafiki Fariala, We, Students! (Nous, étudiants!), 2022. Still. 83′. Courtesy of the artist.

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The Myanmar Film Collective, Myanmar Diaries, 2022. Still. 70′. Courtesy of the artists.

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Franziska von Stenglin, The Dust of Modern Life, 2021. Still. 81′. Courtesy of the artist.

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Filipa César, Mangrove School, 2022. Still. 35′. Courtesy of the artist.

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Sierra Pettengill, Riotsville, USA, 2022. Still. 91′. Courtesy of the artist.

Sound will find a newly curated space within the festival through a second collaboration with Bethlehem-based Radio alHara, a global collective of sound artists and musicians who have come together to unify their sound for Palestine. The collective will experiment, create and produce a radio programme responding to the theme of communality with a week-long residency in the ICA Studio, streaming live on their online global platform.

Highlights include: Dry Ground Burning (Mato seco em chamas) by Adirley Queirós and Joana Pimenta, a pulsating TerraTreme film explores the turbulence of contemporary Brazil through the prism of a women’s gang in a favela; When There Is No More Music to Write, and Other Roman Stories, by Éric Baudelaire, an essay work brings together avant-garde composer Alvin Curran with footage of the armed struggle of far-left movements in Italy; Riotsville, USA by Sierra Pettengill, which highlights the gradual militarisation of the American police; Journal of America (Journal d’Amérique) by Arnaud des Pallières, a dreamlike, wistful view of 20th-century life in the USA; Eduardo Crespo’s The Delights (Las Delicias), an immersion into life among 120 teenagers at an Argentine agrotechnical boarding school; Lina Rodríguez’s My Two Voices (Mis dos voces) (Sunday 8 May), which addresses migration through the experience of three women who have relocated from Colombia and Mexico to Canada; and Brotherhood by Francesco Montagner, an intimate work shot over four years portraying the aspirations of three Bosnian brothers to escape traditional values – and winner of the Golden Leopard at the most recent Locarno Film Festival.