in focus programme
iN FOCUS PROGRAMME: Hometactics
Guest curator: Nadica Denić
Hometactics is a curated programme of short films that explores first-person filmmaking as a negotiation of belonging. How can first-person filmmaking be understood as a cinematic practice that can negotiate a sense of belonging in a world that feels threatening? The films in this programme turn to the camera in the exploration of the filmmakers’ belonging, prompting them to traverse cities, countries, and even continents. Borrowing its title from Mariana Ortega’s (In-Between, 2016) conceptualisation of hometactics as practices ‘deployed at a personal and relational level’, which ‘grant new possibilities of belonging’, this programme focuses on cinema as a home-making practice. Each in its unique way, Longing For Light (Alba Cros Pellisé, 2023), I Don’t Feel At Home Anywhere Anymore, (Viv Li, 2020) and Mother Earth’s Inner Organs (Ana Bravo-Perez, 2022) interrogate the relationship between belonging and location by turning first-person filmmaking into an everyday practice that traverses various borders in order to imagine, shape, and enact more sustainable modes of existence.
– Nadica Denić, Guest Curator
