BEAST IFF | The Status of Eastness

The Status of Eastness

SYNOPSIS

SINOPSE

What is East and what is West in the context of Europe? How does the prime meridian line in London's Greenwich not only divide the world into the western and eastern hemispheres but also create a symbolic understanding of one's proximity to civilisation? By focusing on Poland, a country in-between the "core" and the "periphery", the director explores how identities may be built on the basis of who we are not, and how this results in the creation of a category of "the Other" that we can burden with all the unwanted traits.

BIOGRAPHY

BIOGRAFIA

Arti is a Polish-born, London-based queer visual artist, anthropologist and event organiser. Their creative practice merges moving image, animation, desktop recordings, archive footage, and critical theory to challenge ingrained social norms and identity labels. Arti is particularly interested in the theories of modernity, hyperreality, human-non-human relations and the ethics of representation. Through collaborative and long-term oriented film-research and community projects, Arti aims to contribute to the global anti-capitalist grassroots social justice movements. They are also the founder of KONTEKST - an open collective of critically-minded storytellers (www.kontekstcollective.com).