Flying Objects: An evening of Experimental Film

Why is there Something rather than Nothing? is an experimental ecological film by Tony Fisher, that responds to a lecture given by the German philosopher Martin Heidegger in 1955. Heidegger’s lecture ended with a question. What will become of the earth and of human existence on the earth, when reason determines everything? He was writing under the shadow cast by the atom bomb. The atomic age recast the earth in the image of the planetary. The images in the film were recorded on many trips, and trace chance voyages across the planet, from the UK to Iceland to Ghana.

Città Reale is an experimental audio-visual work by Hing Tsang, combining performance, puppetry and moving cardboard insects. Multiple human hands become a form of moving city, disappearing and reappearing amongst lightness and darkness. The asymmetrical combination of two images slightly out of phase with one another, suggest both the eclipse and resurgence of human communities within a wider ecological context. 

Both films are a testament to vulnerability, inter-connectedness and communal resilience in difficult times.