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Wales Visitation

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Synopsis

Retracing Allen Ginsberg’s 1967 ‘trip’ to the Llanthony Valley, Wales Visitation follows an attempt to channel the poet and document his route through enactments, alignments and apparitions. Using clues gleaned from Ginsberg’s poem of the same name, the film unfolds as a semiotic trail where the filmmaker’s encounters echo and accumulate.
Handheld footage of tourists, sleeping horses, birdcalls and day/night cycles signpost a route as it begins to form. A diary, a dramatisation and a spiritual road movie, Wales Visitation traces not a fixed path, but the conditions under which something might be called back.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2026
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Details

Year
2026
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
15 min 57 sec
Format
Hi8
Director
Sadia Pineda Hameed
Editor
Sadia Pineda Hameed
Principal cast
Sadia Pineda Hameed

Genre

Art / Artists Asian Docufiction Experimental Literary Adaptation Welsh Woman Director

Categories

Artist Project and Video / Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Sadia Pineda Hameed

Sales Company

Sadia Pineda Hameed

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