As part of UCL Film Soc’s Festival of the Moving Image we have curated the short films programme Tracing Entanglements exploring our best ability to piece together the fragments; whether of memories, photographs, legends, folklore or objects.

Inanimate objects come alive, they are memories, and fragments of a past; a message from another world. One for us to interpret. We interpret objects and photographs as much as we label them to be of significance. That connection you can’t shake, has its rope coming undone by time and distance; making the lingering feel unreciprocated in the moment. Yet, the entanglement is breathtaking, and sometimes untraceable. 

What is that lingering feeling which insists that archives, and memories are something to hold on to, to cherish, preserve and bring back to circulation. Entangled Encounters probes deeper into the objects and memories we hold onto. In a time of minimalism and spring cleaning how do we know how to hold on to something and why can’t we let go? 

The programme explores our best ability to piece together the fragments of our heritage and ancestry; whether of memories, photographs, legends, folklore or objects.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

Featuring:

Birthright - Jade O’Belle 

[Un]settled - Elena Siretanu

Shell Fables ~ a Curious Cabinet of Beings & Becoming - Salma Ahmad Caller

Once Upon a Time - JiYoon Park 

The Sparrow is Free - Niki Kohandel

My Mother’s Mother - Asena Nour

Ishtar - Mica Georgis