Inquiring Minds: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Gabi Dao, Eitan Efrat, Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Henry Hills, Onyeka Igwe, Martina Melilli
International Film Festival Rotterdam
January 23–February 3, 2019
The cohesion of three particular films—Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Walled Unwalled (2018), Onyeka Igwe’s Specialised Technique (2018) and Gabi Dao’s The Protagonists (2018)—anchored the Inquiring Minds program in distinct considerations of sound and experimental inquiries. The more I thought about the program’s aims to highlight the complexities, tragedies and triumphs of recorded lived experiences, it became apparent that zealous objectivity has historically produced more than a few models of false authenticity.
In Abu Hamdan performs across three sound effects studios at Funkhaus, the former headquarters for the German Democratic Republic’s state radio.
