Mascara Film Club presents a group screening exploring the construction of borders, featuring works by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Ania Mokrzycka, and Thomas Burke. Attending to contested geographies from the US-Canada boundary to Northern Ireland and the borderlands between Poland and Belarus, these films each offer distinct meditations on the various systems – political, legal, and historical – that produce and call into question territorial divisions. Shifting between poetic and investigative narratives, the films explore the complex lived realities and material consequences of man-made lines drawn on maps.

Programme:

Ania Mokrzycka, [paˈlʲit͡sʲ], 2023 (19 mins)
Thomas Burke, Bonfire as Method, 2024 (23 mins)
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, 45th Parallel, 2022 (15 mins)

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About Mascara Film Club

Mascara Film Club is an artist-run film club, which mostly takes place in North-East London. Taking place outside both film festival circuits and institutional art spaces, we screen artists’ moving image in more convivial contexts. We understand film screenings defined less as the relation between film and spectators in hushed rooms, but rather as performative and social events where the critical intimacies of friendship and community can come to the fore. Through our programming we seek to bring into conversation films and people, and foster a self-organised infrastructure for moving image practitioners.

About New Unity

The Newington Green Meeting House is the home of New Unity, a radically inclusive community of love and justice. This event is a partnership event, with space offered by New Unity's arts programme Arts on the Green. Arts on the Green exists to provide flexible space to arts practitioners bringing high quality culture to our community.

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