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Project 88 Presents Artists' Film International 2024 in Collaboration with Forma, London

Project 88 announces Artists' Film International 2024, showcasing films on the theme of 'Solidarity.' This global program features screenings from July 11-20 in Mumbai, highlighting diverse artists and their works across four continents.

Serenade Team

Jul 10, 2024 — 5 min read

Aarti Sunder, ‘Ghost Cut – Some Clear Pixels Amongst Many Black Boxes’, 2023. Film still. Courtesy and © the artist. Selected for AFI ’24 by Project 88, Mumbai, India.

Project 88 announces the launch of this year’s Artists’ Film International (AFI ’24), a touring film program collectively curated and presented by fifteen international arts organizations and convened by Forma. AFI ’24 introduces the work of talented moving image artists to worldwide audiences, featuring exhibitions, screenings, and public programs hosted across four continents over 300 days.

Theme: Solidarity

This year, the AFI partners have commissioned or selected recent artists’ films responding to the theme of ‘Solidarity’. Considering solidarity as a form of resistance, togetherness, and interdependence, the fifteen films in AFI ’24 address how solidarity is needed, sought, and enacted on various scales. The program cultivates radical imaginaries that have the potential to transform collective experiences.

Featured Artist: Aarti Sunder

Project 88 has nominated Aarti Sunder’s film "Ghost Cut – Some Clear Pixels Amongst Many Black Boxes" for AFI ’24. This work explores the outsourcing of labour through the Amazon Mechanical Turk platform, revealing the precarious nature of isolated entities that train AI platforms. Sunder's film critically examines invisible forms of labour, aligning with the theme of ‘solidarity’ by deconstructing contemporary labour practices across geopolitical borders.

Participating Artists

Bahar Arfan, Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas, Ingrid Bjørnaali, Maria Simmons & Fabian Lanzmaier, Cassils, Collectif Faire-Part, Nadeem Din-Gabisi, Lihuel González, Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, Pınar Öğrenci, Milica Rakić, Caterina Erica Shanta, Mary Sullivan, Aarti Sunder, and more.

Screening Schedule at Project 88

2:00PM — Land Bodies, Decomposing Mass (22 minutes, 2023)
Film by Ingrid Bjørnaali, Maria Simmons & Fabian Lanzmaier. Selected by Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway.

Ingrid Bjørnaali, Maria Simmons & Fabian Lanzmaier, ‘Land Bodies, Decomposing Mass’, 2023. Film still. Courtesy and © the artists. Selected for AFI ‘24 by Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway.

2:30PM — Ghost Cut - Some Clear Pixels Amongst Many Black Boxes (23 minutes, 2023)
Film by Aarti Sunder. Selected by Project 88, Mumbai, India.

Aarti Sunder, ‘Ghost Cut – Some Clear Pixels Amongst Many Black Boxes’, 2023. Film still. Courtesy and © the artist. Selected for AFI ’24 by Project 88, Mumbai, India.

3:00PM — Inventory (16 minutes, 2021)
Film by Pınar Öğrenci. Selected by Video-Forum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin, Germany.

Pınar Öğrenci, ‘Inventory’, 2021. Film still. Courtesy and © the artist. Selected for AFI ’24 by Video-Forum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin, Germany.

3:20PM — MASS (13 minutes, 2020)
Film by Nadeem Din-Gabisi. Commissioned and produced by Film and Video Umbrella as part of FVU’s Curatorial Practice Award. Selected by Forma, London, UK.

Nadeem Din-Gabisi, ‘MASS’, 2020. Film still. Courtesy and © the artist. Commissioned and produced by Film and Video Umbrella as part of FVU’s Curatorial Practice Award. Selected for AFI ’24 by Forma, London, UK.

3:40PM — L’escale / The Stopover (14 minutes, 2022)
Film by Collectif Faire-Part. Selected by argos centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels, Belgium.

Collectif Faire-Part, 'L’ESCALE / THE STOPOVER', 2022. Film still. © the artists and courtesy argos centre for audiovisual arts. Selected for AFI ’24 by argos centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels, Belgium.

4:00PM — Red if you did not exist we would have to invent you (20 minutes, 2021)
Film by Milica Rakić. Selected by Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.

Milica Rakić, 'Red if you did not exist we would have to invent you', 2021. Photo: Aleksandrija Ajduković. Courtesy and © the artist. Selected for AFI ’24 by Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.

4:30PM — En Ausencia (26 minutes, 2023)
Film by Caterina Erica Shanta. Selected by GAMeC, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy.

Caterina Erica Shanta, ‘En Ausencia’, 2023. Film still. Courtesy and © the artist. Selected for AFI ’24 by GAMEeC, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy.

5:00PM — Etched in Light (9 minutes, 2024)
Film by Cassils. Selected by LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, USA.

Cassils, ‘Etched in Light: (Washington D.C. Trans Day of Visibility, March 31, 2024)’, 2024. Photo: Ashley J. Mitchell. Courtesy and © the artist. Selected for AFI ’24 by LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, USA.

5:15PM — filled up, torn open (8 minutes, 2022 - 2024)
Film by Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas. Supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture. Selected by Sapieha Palace, branch of Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania.

Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas,‘filled up, torn open’, 2022/2024. Film still. Courtesy and © the artist. Supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture. Selected for AFI ’24 by Sapieha palace, branch of Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania.

5:30PM — we would be freer (8 minutes, 2023)
Film by Rana Nazzal Hamadeh. Selected by MMAG Foundation, Jordan.

Rana Nazzal Hamdadeh, 'we would be freer', 2023. Film still. Courtesy and © the artist. Selected for AFI '24 by MMAG Foundation, Jordan.

5:45PM — From Guantanamo Prison Until August 15 (4 minutes, 2023)
Film by Bahar Arfan. Selected by Center for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan in eXile e.V.