RAFT continues with a screening of 2019 film A Moon for My Father, followed by a conversation with the directors Mania Akbari and Douglas White
[ID: Minty-green film poster with a photo of a woman wearing only her pants, standing in a room that might be a medical clinic room, but seems also to be set up as a filming studio. She stands with her back to us, with her arms outstretched]
Doors: 7pm
Tickets: £7 - £15
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In Moon for My Father, artist and filmmaker Mania Akbari collaborates with British sculptor Douglas White to coin a tender fusion of language, where a meeting of cinema and sculpture investigates the processes of physical and psychological destruction and renewal. Akbari looks into the connection between her body and the political history of Iran, investigating the relationship between her own physical traumas and the collective political memory of her birthplace. As she undergoes surgeries on a body decimated by cancer, remembrance and reconstruction provide a framework for investigating how bodies are traumatised, censored and politicized, and yet ultimately remain a site of possibility.
Mania Akbari (b. Tehran, 1974) is an internationally acclaimed artist and filmmaker. Her provocative, revolutionary and radical films were recently the subject of retrospectives at the BFI, London (2013), the DFI, Denmark (2014), Oldenburg International Film Festival, Germany (2014), Cyprus Film Festival (2014) and Nottingham Contemporary UK (2018). Akbari was exiled from Iran and currently lives and works in London, a theme addressed in Life May Be (2014), co-directed with Mark Cousins.
Douglas White ( b.1977 Guildford, UK) is a sculptor known for his evocative use of found objects and materials. His works evoke a sense of transformation through decay. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2005 he has worked and exhibited around the world.