‘all the [houses] / I have lived in sit in my ribcage’ - Caleb Femi, Poor, 2020
All our houses and our cities sit within ourselves, inculcating our movements, our bodies, our seasons. Theatrum Mundi presents an afternoon of film that explores the movements of the body in relation to the home.
Saturday 24 September. 4pm
Last of a London Summer
UK, 2017, Ian Mantgani, 6mins
With an introduction from Ian Mantgani
A poetic reverie over the last days of the 2017 London summer.
La Frequenza Fantasma
Italy, 2020, Chiara Ambrosio, 72mins
With a presentation and Q&A session with artist and filmmaker Chiara Ambrosio
La Frequenza Fantasma (The Ghost Frequency) is a feature film that paints a non-hierarchical portrait of a crumbling village nestled on the mountains of Calabria, in the south of Italy, balanced precariously between life and death. Engaging with time as physical matter through a careful and protracted period of observation framed through the lens of an animator’s eye (keen on allowing for minute transformations to occur and unlock all kind of quiet epiphanies), this film attempts to uncover at once the layers of historical sediment that have accumulated in a particular space through time, and to reap new myths through a personal interpretation and direct encounter with place and narrative.