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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

Categories

Artist Project and Video / Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

UK, Poland, Austria, Netherlands co-production

LUX Production

Waterlow Park Centre
Dartmouth Park Hill
London
N19 5JF

Sales Company

Lux Distribution

Waterlow Park Centre
Dartmouth Park Hill
London
N19 5JF

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