Event overview
Screening and Discussion with Rehana Zaman and the Everything Worthwhile Collective
All welcome - no registration needed.
We will be screening the film and holding a discussion with the filmmaker Rehana Zaman and the Everything Worthwhile Collective.
Everything Worthwhile is Done with Other People takes up the conversations, experiences and freedom dreams of a group of women affected by the carceral state, as encountered through the UK government’s hostile environment policy and prison system. This work began as a series of workshops led through Hibiscus Initiatives framed around questions of criminality, innocence and citizenship, perceived through the lens of gender, race and class.
Everything Worthwhile Collective are a group made up of women from South Africa, Ghana, Jamaica, Albania, Nigeria and Iraq who came together around the workshops of the project (2018 - 2023). Through these sessions the technical facets of filmmaking were deconstructed, through theatre games and improvisation, camera and sound recording, storytelling and testimony. Central to this process of congregating has been the sharing of experiences, offering mutual support, advice and tactics to address the interminable limbo of unanswered applications for leave to remain or appeal for asylum, alongside applications for housing or urgent medical care, or the need to reconstruct some semblance of stability after the traumatic impact of detention or a prison sentence.
Over the course of the last seven years our ambitions to create a collectively authored film have been held and nurtured through many shared meals, blossoming friendships and periodic trips to the beach.
Over the course of this process a polyvocal hybrid film emerged, offering a small glimpse into a group’s attempt to connect and form against punitive contexts that strive to diminish, reduce and disappear. The work articulates how in spite of these conditions, solidarity and love, can and does prevail.
Mariame Kaba,“Eve L. Ewing, Everything Worthwhile Is Done With Other People”, ADI Magazine (Fall 2019)
Specs
UK, 2023, Colour, Stereo, 16:9.
Original format: 16mm film / 2K Video.
Director/Camera/ Editing Rehana Zaman and EWIDWOP Collective
Producer Amal Khalaf and Elizabeth Graham Production Coordinator Layla Gatens Second Camera Chinekwu Okoronkwo. Sound Recordists Gisou Golshani, James Bull. Colour Jason R. Moffat. Sound Design mix Richy Carey at èist sound. VFX Tim Booth. Film telecine James Holcombe.
Commissioned by Serpentine Civic.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 12 Nov 2024 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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