Kuc, Kamila (2021) What We Shared. [Art/Design Item]
Type of Research: | Art/Design Item | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Creators: | Kuc, Kamila | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description: | Seven inhabitants of Abkhazia, a de facto state on the Black Sea, unfurl a web of stories about loss and displacement through the re-imaginings of dreams and memories of the 1992-93 war with Georgia. To question the unstable distinction between fact and fiction, these re-imaginings are interwoven with auto-fictional narration and archival materials that have been processed through an AI technology. The Black Sea permeating the film’s world acts as a metaphor of both an idyllic holiday destination of utopian happiness; as well as a perilous force, a place of conspiracy and death. What We Shared employs emotive soundscape and imagery to produce a sensory reflection on artistic practice as a powerful binding force and an act of resistance to dominant power structures. ‘By recreating personal stories though testimony, poetry and archival material, the artist and performers explore deep traumas that no single place or language can contain. Abkhazia, the disputed state on the Black Sea – once an opulent Soviet holiday resort with a multi-ethnic population – became a symbolic ghost town following the 1992-93 war with Georgia. Here, fragmented memories and dreams destroyed by violence and exile are exhumed through interpretive re-enactment and haunting sound.’ Helen de Witt, BFI London Film Festival (2021) |
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Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | war, trauma, psychotherapy, social choreography, artificial intelligence, body, authoritarianism | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > London College of Communication | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date: | 1 June 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Funders: | Arts Council England, NJL Foundation London, Coventry University, Sklad Cultural Centre Sukhum Abkhazia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Related Websites: | https://whatweshared.com/, https://www.kamilakuc.com/wws, https://darkspringstudio.com/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Related Exhibitions: | 65th BFI London Film Festival, World Premiere, 45th Göteborg Film Festival, Göteborg, Sweden, International Premiere, 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, North American Premiere, BGS London Georgian Film Festival, Prismatic Ground, Maysles Documentary Centre, New York City, Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, Colorado, Whitechapel Gallery, London, The Pushkin House, London, ArtKino, Rijeka, Croatia, SKLAD, Sukhum/i, Abkhazia, Abkhaz Premiere, The New School, School of Media Studies, NYC. Co-sponsored by The Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 6th Biennale of the Moving Image, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Fisura International Festival of Film and Video Art, Mexico City, Mexico, The 18th East Silver Market, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, in collaboration with Institute of Documentary Film, Prague, Czech Republic, Visions du Réel Industry, Nyon, Switzerland, April, 2022, Goethe Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia, The 5th BEAST International Film Festival, Territories section, OKNE, Porto, Portugal, Visible Evidence: Images of History conference, Faculty of Social Sciences University of Gdansk, Poland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Material/Media: | Feature film | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Measurements or Duration of item: | 69 mins | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date Deposited: | 13 Mar 2023 14:31 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 13 Mar 2023 14:31 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Item ID: | 19761 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/19761 |
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