Project Detail

Part One: Where There Is a Joyous Mood...

Name: Part One: Where There Is a Joyous Mood...
Director: Rosalind Nashashibi
Genre: Experimental, Woman Director
Released: 2019
Duration: 24 mins

Synopsis

'Part One: Where There Is a Joyous Mood, There a Comrade Will Appear to Share a Glass of Wine' concerns affective relations and community building. The film is like a spell or a promise for a new and more liberating type of family structure. The film has a non-linear narrative that weaves various intimate settings, some within shared domestic spaces, others in outdoor environments. Shot in Lithuania, London, and Edinburgh, the film features the artist and her children, as well as close friends, which she considers extended family.
In the process of creating this new work, Rosalind Nashashibi questions how a group’s sense of commonality is dissolved when there is an absence of communal experience and adherence to linear time. Through an open-ended discussion of space and time travel in the film, which is in part inspired by the creation and dissolution of group relationships in Ursula Le Guin’s “The Shobies’ Story” (1990), Nashashibi explores new modes of conviviality, considering the absence of the nuclear family structure without an imperative model in sight.
Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Forum Expanded - International premiere

Details

Year: 2019
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 24 mins
Format: Installation piece
Director: Rosalind Nashashibi
Producer: Denna Cartamkhoob
Editor: Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Harris
Screenwriter: Rosalind Nashashibi
Sound: Adam Gutch; Sound Design: Philippe Ciompi
Composer: Subjective (C Price / J Davidson), Giedrius Puskunigis
Principal cast: Liudvikas Buklys, Gintaras Didziapetris, Pauline Manacorda, Pietro Manacorda, Elena Narbutaite
Colourist: Jason R Moffat
Film Title: Part One - Where There Is a Joyous Mood, There a Comrade Will Appear to Share a Glass of Wine

Genre

Experimental Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

UK, Poland, Austria, Netherlands co-production

LUX Production

Waterlow Park Centre
Dartmouth Park Hill
London
N19 5JF

Visit Website

Sales Company

Lux Distribution

Waterlow Park Centre
Dartmouth Park Hill
London
N19 5JF

Visit Website

Page updates

This page was last updated on 12th May 2025. Please let us know if we need to make any amendments or request edit access by clicking below.

Suggest amendments

A SEASON IN SECRET brings together material both close at hand and far away. It is a meditation on things glimpsed at a distance and the limits of perception. What lies behind the screen is hidden and may only be hinted at through the language of visible images and sounds. The film takes some of its cues from the Japanese aesthetic concept of Yūgen, described in part by the 15th-century aesthetician Zeami Motokiyo: “...to stand upon the shore and gaze after a boat that disappears behind distant islands.”

Experimental

Fevers

Director: James Richards

Year: 2026

Taking as his starting point - less by way of invocation than summoning - the text from Marguerite Duras’ 'Les Mains négatives' and Tony Conrad’s 'The Flicker', James Richards weaves together stirring fragments composed from 2022-2026, including repurposed material from friends and collaborators including Steve Reinke. The screen is filled with images and impressions, depicting a frantic yet melancholic quest for meaning between language, gesture, and sensation. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2026 - World premiere

Art / Artists Experimental