Arjuna Neuman

Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims

An exploration of the entanglements and overlaps of historical events, past present and future, in the Atacama Desert, in Chile. Told from the perspective of the wind the film takes us on a visual journey, moving freely through the many sites and histories of the Atacama, from some of the largest lithium mines in the world, to prehistoric stone drawings; hovering above the remnants of colonial labour camps later reactivated under Pinochet’s regime, and slipping in the international observatory of the ALMA large array facility.

Syncopated Green

Syncopated Green reflects on the history of outdoor free parties in the English Countryside, using rave music, past and present, to help forget the ‘official’ portrayal of England as picturesque, nostalgic, white, and rural. The film invites rave music into the English landscape – turning imperial history inside out. Somewhere between a music video, a memoir and an essay, the film asks, how might our future be different if we had other histories to lean on – and dance with?

Soot Breath / Corpus Infinitum

A film dedicated to tenderness. It reproduces a radical sensibility learned from listening to the blues, from listening to skin, to heat, and from listening to echoes, listening itself.

4 Waters: Deep Implicancy

4 Waters: Deep Implicancy is an experiment in collaboration that traces the striking possibility of a state without value. The artists’ research crosses four bodies of water — the Mediterranean sea; and the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans — to connect four disparate islands: Lesvos, Haiti, Marshall Islands and Tiwi. Each island holds within it stories of tremendous violence, but also the potential for otherwise. The film assembles fragments that touch on a kind of knowledge embedded in a moment preceding human history or geological timescales — a moment of total entanglement described by the artists as Deep Implicancy. In excavating the link between geological shifts and material realities, they ask: can an earthquake release the knowledge for a revolution in the very way we know the world?

Serpent Rain

Serpent Rain is as much an experiment in working together as it is a film about the future.

Ida Western Exile

A would-be exile explores her Georgia O'Keeffe fantasies through customer support calls.