A Relaxed Screening of this programme will take place simultaneously at Berwick Town Hall Council Chamber.
The Maltings screening will be introduced and contextualised by artist and educator, Sneha Solanki.
Sneha Solanki is a multidisciplinesd practitioner, producing work and events that utilise open and collaborative methods to engender knowledge and intersectional thinking. She often works on long-term projects, including; Eating Things — engaging with feral, uncultivated and wild food ecologies; Micro_Food Library — mapping microbial food transformers; and FoaBP (Fear of a Brown Planet), exploring diaspora, pseudo-sciences, and our on-going and embedded history with viruses.
Sneha is currently a PhD Candidate Fine Art, Geography, Politics & Sociology and Maltings Berwick, Newcastle University.
She has exhibited, performed and produced workshops nationally and internationally including Wild Museum, Dukes Hagg Wood, Prudhoe; Hospitalfield, Arbroath; Summerhall, Edinburgh; Arts Admin, London; CCA, Glasgow; ICA, London; Fonteca Nacional, Mexico City; Contemporary Art Centre, Riga; FO.AM, Brussels; The Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade; Watson Institute, Boston; Post & Tele Museum, Copenhagen and Motorship Stubnitz, Rotterdam.
Soft Fruit
Filmed in Angus, Scotland, Soft Fruit follows migrant seasonal workers on an industrial berry farm as they pick, prepare and transport crops. Candid conversations and scenes of rebellious, collective gathering appear alongside observational footage in shifting visual formats – from high-definition video to 16mm, and CGI inspired by medieval Islamic cosmography – building a layered sense of time and place.