Suffocation
Kaurna Land / 2022 / 3m / English
In-Person: Tues 27 June / 20:15 BST
Online: 23 - 29 June
A sharp interrogation of colonialism and its effects on our social world and living environment presented as a defiant poetry performance.
How heavy are lungs, forced to draw in air toxified by war and degradation? In this poetry film, Palestinian filmmaker Reema Saad and Dominic Guerrera, a Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri poet, collaborate to envision a future of liberation, free from the violent legacies of oppression of Indigenous people. Shot around the site of an abandoned ship on Kaurna Land, otherwise known as Adelaide, Australia, Suffocation (2022) questions what sorts of changes Earth would undergo without relenting assaults on the natural world.
-
Directed, filmed and edited by Reema Saad
Poetry by Dominic Guerrera
Drone footage by Benjamin Hobbs
Music by Syd Sibley
-
Captions by Sarya Wu
British Sign Language by Grace Buckle
BSL Editing by Tao-Anas Le Thanh
Audio Descriptions provided by the International Digital Centre
Listen to…
Filmmaker Reema Saad and poet Dominic Guerrera talk about Suffocation in our Audio Programme, Before the Applause - available wherever you get your podcasts.
Read Response
Banishing colonial dust
A Response to Suffocation, written by Georgina Quach