UNMASKED: Protest-film-fest. On February 7, filmmaker Festus Toll and artist Sophie Straat will present three films and a video work. Tra Fasi - Charity Charly, This Home Is Ours - Shayma' Awawdeh, Asiel - Tina Farifteh, A Sod State - Eoghan Ryan.
Sophie: "In Charity Charly's film Tra Fasi, Shavero says: “Just having fun with the boys, we need an outlet.” Isn't that exactly why music and film exist? For the simple pleasure.
Both Tra Fasi and This Home Is Ours are essentially about creating something: wanting to “just” exist and wanting to do something. But through oppression or stepping outside the norm, doing that automatically becomes a form of resistance.
Tina Farifteh's video work, Asiel (Asylum), on the other hand, is pure resistance, both from B (the anonymous asylum seeker) and from Tina, the creator.
In A Sod State, Eoghan Ryan's film, this protest is explored in a fictional way: how can real stories about oppression, resistance, protest, campaigning and reality be told through art?"