Still from Tracing Islands

Experimenta

Tracing Islands

These films invite reflection on places that remember, histories that persist, and cinema’s role in unearthing hidden relationships between ecology, extractive capitalism and collective survival.
Runtime
94 min
More information
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Screenings

An Unimaginable Leap

  • Director

    Hope Pearl Strickland

  • UK-Jamaica 2025. 18min

Through contemporary Jamaica, everyday life, celebration and respite converge in a meditation on revolutionary time, climate crisis and cinema.

Landscapes of Shame

  • Director-screenwriter

    Patrick Hough

  • Ireland-UK 2026. 30min

Navigating Ireland’s haunted landscapes, ecological extinction and cultural suppression emerge as intertwined forms of colonial erasure.

Guided Tour

Visita Guiada

  • Director-screenwriter

    Alba Jaramillo

  • France-Puerto Rico 2026. 15min

Zuania’s tropical paradise conceals a former US military site, where abandoned ruins echo the violence of an unhealed colonial past.

Badak

  • Director-screenwriter

    Riar Rizaldi

  • Indonesia-Thailand 2025. 31min

Badak reflects on extraction as both method and worldview – on the pulling of value and meaning from creatures, minerals and landscapes, and the scars left behind.