This program of films and videos explores the culture, legends, ideas and leisure of several communities around the world and over time.

Field Notes - Vashti Harrison

USA/TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 2014, 16MM, 18 MIN

An experimental portrait of the ghosts embedded in the culture of the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. Structured as a visual and aural field guide to the spirits of the island; from personal tales about shape-shifters and bloodsuckers to the ghosts of Trinidads past, Field Notes focuses on the places where the natural and supernatural collide.

The Present Is An Animal In My Stomach - Luiza Fag Ribeiro do Valle

BRAZIL, 2013, 16MM AND VIDEO ON DIGITAL VIDEO, 10 MIN

A poetic exploration of how we exist in time. The piece is entirely illustrated by archival images that seem to answer the question obliquely: The sun shines, storms rage, tides turn and volcanoes erupt while we labour, we wander, we eat and we die.

Imraan, c/o Carrom Club - Udita Bhargava

INDIA/GERMANY, 2014, DIGITAL VIDEO, 13 MIN

Imraan, c/o Carrom Club offers us a glimpse of the culture of one of Mumbais many social clubs where young men and boys gather to smoke, gamble and play carrom, a strike and pocket table game popular throughout the region. Between gaming, smoking and joking aroundthe boys share their thoughts about life.

Quarry - Richard P. Rogers

USA, 1970, 16MM, 13 MIN

In 1967, Richard Rogers filmed the activi- ties at a recently decommissioned granite quarry in Quincy, Massachusetts. The work that once took place on the site is refer- enced on the soundtrack but Rogers focus is the youth that gather at the place. The quarry is a location where they can dive, drink, gamble and shoot the breeze. The beauty and innocence of the summer idyll is thrown into perspective by the voice of one young man, already a veteran of the conflict in Vietnam.

Co-presented with South Asian Visual Arts Centre