Precarious Landscapes Film Screening

These experimental and narrative short films from Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines, explores myth, fantasy and growing up in a time of crisis and change. 

Prioritising the personal over the scientific, these films look at how the hope of a new world wrestles with the ghosts of the past.

From journeys of return in It’s Raining Frogs Outside and Golden Dragon, to examinations of sexist superstitions in Lemongrass Girl these films explore how we bear change. 

Tabula Rasa and Pyroclasts are Eloquent Storytellers are concerned with sensorial and ritualistic relationships to our environment – from the human desire to predict disaster to wandering with the ghosts of history.

The screening will be preceded by a sound performance by Zhao Jiajing, a London-based composer and interdisciplinary artist whose work seeks to evoke cross-sensory imaginations.

For more info or tickets, please visit Barbican or @sine_screen