{"title":"Screens - Tussie Mussie","metaTitle":"Screens - Tussie Mussie · Forde","uri":"archives/screens-tussie-mussie","heading":"<p>Monday 14.04.2025<br>7pm – projection</p>","credits":"","description":"<p>FORDE SCREENS #5 Tussie Mussie </p><p></p><p>Forde Screens is a monthly event organized by Forde at the Spoutnik cinema every second Monday of the month, dedicated to films by artists exploring various cinematographic forms and visual perspectives. For this edition, the Forde team is delighted to have collaborated with Eliott Villars and Hugo Radi on the program. The screening will be followed by a presentation and discussion in the presence of Hugo Radi, Marcel Mrejen and Lou Rambert Preiss. </p><p>About the films presented:</p><p>Kamal Aljafari - UNDR, 15min, without dialogue, 2024 </p><p>The camera's eye returns obsessively to the same places, a vertical perspective that imposes control, the possession of archaeological sites, stones lying for thousands years in the desert. The places it observes, however, are not deserted: we see, as if glimpsed from afar, the peasants working the land, themselves transformed into landscape. Something disturbs the stillness of the place: explosions on land and in the sea prepare the ground for new cities with new names, new forests. This landscape is transformed into a scenography of appropriation.</p><p></p><p>Marcel Mrejen - Memories of an Unborn Sun, 16min, vostfr, 2024</p><p>Since 2006, thousands of Chinese workers have been arriving daily in Algeria to build new cities across the country. Refusal of taking care of the dead by construction companies led to rumors about the disappearance of worker’s bodies, therefore questioning the collective memory of these workers expunged from history. Memories of an Unborn Sun aims to articulate a metaphysical query around light as a form of memory, blending archives from French nuclear tests in the Sahara, viral footage of an artificial sun rising in the sky and verses from Tuareg poet Hawad. As this nightless world embodies the capitalist utopia of infinite growth, how to remember those made invisible? Exiled workers and ghosts of an energetical quest.</p><p></p><p>Hugo Radi - Initial, 13min, vo fr, 2021 </p><p>A woman is invited to a private seminar for influential people. Involved in the security plan for this special event, a sniper thinks of his son Coren- tin.</p><p></p><p>Lou Rambert Preiss - Métallismes, 22min, vo fr, 2024 </p><p>Adi is trying to earn a living as a delivery boy. One evening he finds his scooter broken into pieces. While searching for the culprits he slowly discovers that’s this event is somehow tied to the strange phenomena that have been shaking up his neighborhood.</p><p></p><p>Yuyan Wang - The Moon Also Rises, 23min, vostfr, 2024</p><p>Just before the launch of artificial moons, a retired couple finds their harbor in the fading darkness. Trying to catch up with the pace of modernity, their daily life traces this forthcoming brightness back to its earthly origins.</p><p></p><p>About the artists:</p><p>Kamal Aljafari, Né 1972 à Ramla, studied at the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln and currently lives in Berlin. He has taught filmmaking at The New School (New York) and the DFFB (Berlin). He is a fellow at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination of Columbia University. In May 2024, IndieLisboa dedicated a retrospective to his work. In 2024 his film UNDR was selected at IFFR and A Fidai Film at Visions du Réel, where it won the Grand Jury Prize Burning Lights Competition. Aljafari is currently working on a fiction film to be shot in Jaffa.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Marcel Mrejen (FR/DZ) born in 1994 (Paris, FR) is a visual artist and filmmaker exploring the articulation of technology within living and economic metabolisms. The form of his work spans various time-based media — installations, filmmaking, sound, and machine-learning. He graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2018, before being a resident of Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains from 2021 to 2023. His work has been exhibited/screened in various cultural institutions, including the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam) or Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham). Parallel to his artistic practice, he co-curated the first edition of REFRESH: Future-Proof in 2021. His debut film Memories of an Unborn Sun was awarded the Jury Prize at Visions du Réel in 2024 and screened in numerous festivals around the world.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Hugo Radi, born 1992 in Geneva. Bachelor's degree in cinema from ECAL (École Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne). His short films have been shown at international festivals and screenings. In 2023, his short film NIGHT SHIFT, co-directed with Kayije Kagame, was nominated for the Swiss Film Prize and won the Silver Leopard for best short film in national competition at the Locarno Film Festival. He is currently collaborating with Kayije Kagame on the development of their first feature film.</p><p></p><p>Lou Rambert-Preiss is a filmmaker. 2018 graduate of the École Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne, he has made several short and medium-length films that have won awards at festivals (including Locarno, Palm Springs and Côté Court) and been shown in a number of institutions (Centre Pompidou, French and Swiss Cinémathèques, Circulo de Bellas Arte in Madrid, Musée du quai Branly, Mucem, etc.). He has received grants and residencies for his developing projects (Upcoming Lab in Solothurn, SoFilm de Genre, Institut Français Villa Saint-Louis Ndar, Hotel Experimenta). </p><p>Yuyan Wang (b. 1989, China) is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist. Her work focuses on the impact of image creation in media, representation, and the attention economy. By deconstructing and recontextualizing inherent meanings of found materials, her practice probes the continual mutations within the industrial production chain of images, a perpetual development leading to an abstraction of reality. Her work has been showcased at Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, the 12th Berlin Biennale and various festivals, such as Berlinale, IFFR, European Media Art Festival, Indie Lisboa, receiving numerous awards.</p><p></p>","cover":{"url":"https://23-26.forde.ch/media/pages/archives/screens-tussie-mussie/78249ddc88-1744128248/1-1200x-q80.webp","alt":"Forde"},"videos":"","medias":[{"url":"https://23-26.forde.ch/media/pages/archives/screens-tussie-mussie/61c03aa54f-1744131350/capture-decran-2025-04-07-a-10.15.06-1200x-q80.webp","alt":"Forde","caption":"Kamal Aljafari - UNDR","id":"archives/screens-tussie-mussie/capture-decran-2025-04-07-a-10.15.06.png"},{"url":"https://23-26.forde.ch/media/pages/archives/screens-tussie-mussie/c38c8da3e6-1744131434/moaus_1.34.1-1200x-q80.webp","alt":"Forde","caption":"<strong>Marcel Mrejen - </strong>Memories of an Unborn Sun","id":"archives/screens-tussie-mussie/moaus_1.34.1.jpg"},{"url":"https://23-26.forde.ch/media/pages/archives/screens-tussie-mussie/af6c207d4b-1744131496/capture-decran-2025-03-13-a-17.54.23-1200x-q80.webp","alt":"Forde","caption":"<strong>Hugo Radi - Initial</strong>","id":"archives/screens-tussie-mussie/capture-decran-2025-03-13-a-17.54.23.png"},{"url":"https://23-26.forde.ch/media/pages/archives/screens-tussie-mussie/5e754c522e-1744131555/meta_lourambertpreiss_1-1200x-q80.webp","alt":"Forde","caption":"<strong>Lou Rambert Preiss - </strong>Métallismes","id":"archives/screens-tussie-mussie/meta_lourambertpreiss_1.jpeg"},{"url":"https://23-26.forde.ch/media/pages/archives/screens-tussie-mussie/02113a4e4b-1744131598/still_the-moon-also-rises-6-1200x-q80.webp","alt":"Yuyan Wang - The Moon Also Rises","caption":"Yuyan Wang - <strong>The Moon Also Rises</strong>","id":"archives/screens-tussie-mussie/still_the-moon-also-rises-6.jpg"}]}