Anjouan Unit Screens | Assembly Time

Join us for a screening of our film Assembly Time. Portraying the cognitive dissonance, dissociation and disturbances within the metropole. Where neoliberalism has ensured we are ruled by a politics of division and alienation. But where we as a Unit resist in the fight for collective liberation.

Assembly Time follows a red thread that weaves together moving image, sound and text, as fragments. Shot on digital, analogue and smartphone cameras and bringing together archival footage, news clips, social media videos, voice recordings, found sounds, original music and revolutionary poetry. 

Produced and edited collectively, the film embraces the multiplicity of realities within the movement, while finding the common intention of dismantling colonial dichotomies as they manifest (with)in the near and far. We are not just witnesses of how these dichotomies collapse in today's burning world, we seize the current momentum of freedom struggles uniting. Breaking the fourth wall, we draw on a journey through truth, alongside the legacy and within the Resistance, where freedom and self actualisation reside.

The project was born out of a desire to walk in parallel with legacies of revolutionary filmmaking collectives such as Abounnadara in Syria and the Palestine Film Unit, using film as a weapon of resistance. The intent is for our collective film not just to be about resistance, but to be resistance through the practice of filmmaking. Recognising the urgent need to continue mobilising and organising within the Palestinian and larger global anti-imperialist solidarity movement, with a view to bringing together the spaces of militant organisation and arts creation.

We believe in the power of guerrilla pedagogy, the effect of disruptive learning when we centre learning from each other. To not only deconstruct film-making processes but also notions of private and individual authorship, ownership and the hierarchies they engender.

re-Assembly Time: Following the screening we will be hosting a participatory workshop for audience members to engage with mixed media materials and have a go at making their own films with us.

We will be sharing some of our processes used to disseminate knowledge around collective filmmaking. There will be mixed media materials for you to engage with but we ask you to bring anything you feel inspired to bring (no pressure!). This can include short smartphone videos, photos, audio recordings eg. voicenotes or songs, books or poems.

Assembly Time is a call to action. To spread the seeds of agency, self and collective growth in the struggle for the liberation of all.

NOTE: In return for being able to fund our vibrant exhibitions and events, we must charge a fair £5 ticket price to help offset some of the gallery running and overhead expenses. With a large percentage of our public and private sponsorship eliminated, your gift enables us to continue presenting idea-stimulating art and culture events. Thank you immensely for helping independent not-for-profit art spaces like ours.

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