Project Detail

The Season of Burning Things

Synopsis

A moving-image collaboration between the two artists. Unfolding from the creators’ perspectives in the Somali diaspora, the piece takes the lead from East African mythos and Islamic imagery to explore mythmaking, Blackness; a ‘generation of ghosts’ and the transient spirit.
Official Selection BlackStar Film Festival 2022

Details

Year
2021
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
9 min
Director
Asmaa Jama, Gouled Ahmed
Producer
Asmaa Jama
Co-Producer
Gouled Ahmed
Executive Producer
Elinor Lower, Ben Atterbury
Editor
Gebriel Balcha, Asmaa Jama
Screenwriter
Asmaa Jama
Director of Photography
Gebriel Balcha
Sound
Gebriel Balcha, Asmaa Jama
Composer
Amin Xaaji Cusman (Music: c/o British Library)

Production Status

Production Company

A Bristol Old Vic production

Sales Company

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.

See also

You may also be interested in other relevant projects in the database.

A painted figure sitting on a bench in a red and pink square Soho Square

Director: Mario Cavalli, Ashley Potter

Year: 1992

Hot time, summer in the city… A hued thought in a green shade – the life of a square from flesh to ‘paint’ via video. 24 hours of light.

Sparse black pen lines of television aerials on white Rotting Artist

Director: Ann Course, Paul Clark

Year:

People try it on in the Croxley bunkers, and when the head of the household shoves his bendy cane brush right up the chimney we would do well to run to the other side of the road and watch it appear out the top for the lucky sight of it.

A sepia interior with a hanging object and two faces in the background Heliocentrum

Director: Jason White, Richard Wright

Year: 1995

Politics and pleasure in the court of King Louis. A Baroque rave where Versailles meets Video. Computer animation for the cognoscenti.