GOOD WICKEDRY is an online cinema platform driven by carefully considered curation. We want to cut through the noise of excessive content by highlighting one great thing at a time, showing one film at a time, and platforming it for two weeks straight.
These bold and invigorating choices can be new or old, from any genre, and any format, with an especial focus on shorts - narrative films, docs, art vids, music vids, experimental, animation, etc. Platforming of BIPOC and female filmmakers is also of especial importance. This variety will build a stronger and more nuanced, but also universal, picture of the make-up of our cinematic world.
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Directed by
April Lin 林森
Leena Habiballa
Dan Guthrie
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This special edition of Good Wickedry is hosted in collaboration with Grand Union. Funded by Arts Council England, the ‘Free to Forage’ programme collaborates with and highlights cultural producers, whose work shifts our attention to nature to address colonial legacies, diasporic experiences, land and environmental justice.
The programme explores moving image and short film work which delves into questions of reclaiming nature, belonging, and healing the severed relationships between living beings.
The films are available to watch for FREE via the Grand Union website, from March 25 to April 22.
TR333 - In collaboration with ecologist Dr. Nalini Nadkarni, artist-filmmaker April Lin 林森 presents ‘TR333’, a speculative documentary which imagines a new species of tree based on scientific literature on plants and climate hardiness. Their hybrid forms and body parts a patchwork amalgamation of different tree types, this tree is a climate adaptative response, a lifeform born out of resilience and hope.
Dead as a Dodo - Dead As A Dodo (2022) lays bare the settler colonial mythology at the heart of the popular narrative of the Dodo’s extinction. By drawing on archival material and the Dodo’s apparition the film performs a sensory haunting, reviving the spaces between life and death that have been shaped by settler violence into a value-forming exercise. This work is inspired by and is in conversation with a book of poems titled ‘A Theory of Birds’ by the Palestinian-American poet Zaina Alsous.
Coaley Peak (A Fragment) - Selected by Exeter Phoenix for their 2021 Artists’ Moving Image commission, Dan’s idea was to make a film about Blackness and belonging in the English countryside, taking a family photo of some of his relatives at the Gloucestershire viewpoint Coaley Peak as a starting point. Whilst making the film, something happened.
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