SCREENING and CONVERSATION / Encounters + Crossovers: Archie Moore

Join us for this FREE screening event.

Extending our seasonal calendar in 2024, documentary scholar and filmmaker Dr Kim Munro brings experimental, cutting-edge contemporary and historic films from around the globe into conversation with Samstag’s exhibitions. 

This season, Archie Moore's (Kamilaroi/Bigambul) exhibition Dwelling (Adelaide Issue) is partnered with two Palestinian films that explore homeland as a place of traditions and connection, as well as one under constant surveillance and control. Both UNDR and Foragers deploy a range of cinematic modes to tell these powerful stories.

Following the screenings, Munro and Samstag’s Associate Curator Anna Zagala will consider the crossover of art and films – what do artistic moving image and experimental nonfiction have to say to each other?

This event will be accompanied by a commissioned essay by Dominic Guerrera, a Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna and Italian writer whose work explores themes of Aboriginality, Queerness, decolonising and storytelling within the mediums of poetry, essays, podcasting and photography.

*This event is now booked out. You are welcome to join the waitlist or come on the night and see if there are any spare seats available.*

Thursday 14 November, 6:30pm

SCREENING and CONVERSATION /

Screening begins at 6:30 pm 

Mercury Cinema

13 Morphett St, Adelaide 

Limited seats available - BOOKED OUT

FREE

All welcome

EXHIBITION / 

Archie Moore: Dwelling (Adelaide Issue)

Samstag Museum of Art 

55 North Terrace, Adelaide

Just a short stroll from the cinema – Samstag galleries will be open until 6:30 pm so that you can visit the exhibition before attending the screening.

ACCESS /

Samstag is committed to ensuring its programs and activities are accessible to everyone.  All areas of the Museum are accessible by wheelchair and pram, and we welcome guide dogs and assistance dogs inside our gallery spaces.  If you require an Auslan interpreter or have any questions about access, please contact anna.zagala@unisa.edu.au
Please visit the Mercury Cinema website for access information.

FILMS /

UNDR (2024)

Directed by Kamal Aljafari

15 minutes

Palestine/Germany

A helicopter sweeps the desert, surveying a land at once ancient and modern, natural and built. Farmers work their fields, children play hide and seek, and bells sound a call to prayer. UNDR is a poignant found-footage film about an otherworldly landscape charged with history and potential that has become an eerie site of surveillance and incursion.

Foragers (2022)

Directed by Jumana Manna

64 minutes

Palestine

Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, Foragers moves between fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on the Palestinian custom of collecting native herbs. Foragers captures the inherited love, joy and knowledge in these traditions alongside their resilience to the prohibitive law.

Image: Archie MOORE, HouseShow, 2020, installation view at The Cottage, 272 Montague Ro