17th EASA Biennial Conference
EASA2022: Transformation, Hope and the Commons
School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast
26-29 July, 2022

EASA2022 Belfast - Film programme

22 accepted films as list 4 days 12 sessions
En Revolutionær Familie (A Colombian Family) 2020 | 80’ | Colombia / Denmark A mother and daughter confront the past after years of civil war in Colombia, but end in the difficult dilemma between reconciliation and political ideals.
Tobačni spomini (Tobacco memories) 2020 | 30’ | Bulgaria / Slovenia A short ethnographic film journey on the fields of tobacco.
Jours d’après (The Days After) 2020 | 72’ | France / France In France, the mountainous region Trièves is home to an experimental farm called La Ferme Tournesol which is entirely energy self-sufficient.
Rift Finfinnee 2020 | 79’ | Ethiopia / Deutschland The film takes the viewer on a journey through the periphery of Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa - an allegorical narrative about the becoming urban of an African society on the edge of civil war.
Jimmy's Archive 2021 | 25’ | England, UK / England, UK Jimmy's Archive is a collaborative short film by anthropologist Robert Deakin and James ('Jimmy') Watters – a lifelong resident of Poplar, a working-class neighbourhood in the former docklands of east London
Objetos Rebeldes (Rebel Objects) 2020 | 70’ | Costa Rica / Costa Rica/Colombia Through objects Carolina learns a different way to relate to death.
Mar concreto (Concrete Sea) 2021 | 15’ | Brazil / Brazil As an exercise of resistance, Sônia follows the process of destruction caused by the sea, which day by day, advances into the beach and approaches her home. She makes daily records of this process and through them builds an emotional bond, a solitary prose that challenges the final tragedy.
Creatures of the Lines 2021 | 20’ | United Kingdom / United Kingdom COTL explores how desires for economic growth have produced straightened forms in England’s waterscapes, asking what risks are associated with the conversion of its once curvy worlds into linearized terrains.
Abissal (Abyssal) 2021 | 12’ | Portugal / Portugal National borders expand on the seabed as ocean technoscience colonizes new depths and territorializes the abyssal, in a process that interrogates the future of humanity.
Naku Ikinyu (Living Forest) 2021 | 21’ | Ecuador / United States The Place where Beauty and Destruction Meet.
Ait Atta: Nomads of the High Atlas 2020 | 77’ | Morocco / Morocco & Switzerland The incredible journey taken by a transhumant family across the High Atlas mountains and the very challenges of nomadism within an ever transforming Moroccan society.
Unreal Boys 2020 | 36’ | Japan / Germany Exploring desire for fictional characters among fans of a subcultural comic genre in Japan.
I'm the Boss 2021 | 29’ | India / India/UK I'm the Boss follows several groups of young men who pass their time making TikTok genre videos in Delhi, the capital city of India.
Lauren’s video diary 2022 | 7’ | Romania / United Kingdom (EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement n° 846645) During the COVID-19 pandemic, Stefano could not travel to Romania to keep recording Lauren's life. So, in December 2020, he sent him a smartphone and asked him to record a video diary.
Hálfur Álfur (Half Elf) 2020 | 64’ | Iceland / Iceland A lighthouse keeper prepares his earthly funeral while trying to reconnect to the elf within.
Circuits of Care: Ageing and Japan's Robot Revolution 2021 | 30’ | Japan / Ireland Circuits of Care explores how older adults, developers, and health practitioners in Japan understand, interact with, and live alongside their non-human counterparts.
Letters2Maybe 2021 | 91’ | United States / United States Letters2maybe is an unfinished poetry that expresses with great empathy and trust an unflinching demand for justice and solidarity.
Ten by Ten 2021 | 29’ | South Korea / United Kingdom After appearing on one of South Korea’s most popular television programs, an American-Korean couple must adjust to the shock of their newfound tv fame and the crowds of new customers it brings to the Tennessee-themed diner they operate from their home.
ben jij bij mij (are you with me) 2019 | 46’ | The Netherlands / The Netherlands We filmed my grandmother over the course of three years, to document the life she still lives despite living with Alzheimer's disease.
Life after lockdown in Wuhan 2021 | 24’ | China / The Netherlands A two-chapter film about a young women in Wuhan who goes back to work after having been in lockdown and later travels to visit her family.
Guanzhou, Une Nouvelle Ère (Guanzhou, A New Era) 2019 | 71’ | China / France The hyper-urbanization of China meets an ancestral culture which refuses to die.