Film Introduction: Nervous Translation by Dr Ella Raidel

Film Introduction: Nervous Translation by Dr Ella Raidel

Nervous Translation, Shireen Seno, 2018 Colour, sound, 90 min Rating: PG

This film follows the inner voice and play of an eight-year-old girl who cooks perfect miniature dishes, mimicking the world of adults. The perception of the child is translated through fragmentation and sounds that are written into words, such as the ring of the telephone, and the sound of the aircon, all forming together, an orchestra of the everyday. Waiting, boredom, and dead time pave the temporality of her imagination, while she is listening to cassette tapes recorded by her father, a migrant worker in Saudi Arabia. The personal phantasmagoric vision encounters the political dimension echoing the times of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines. Shireen Seno (Japan/Philippines) studied architecture and cinema at the University of Toronto before relocating to Manila. Her work addresses memory, history and image-making, often in relation to the idea of home.

6 - 19 January 2021

English

Film Introduction: Reassemblage by Dr Ella Raidel

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