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Walkout 1

Reman Sadani

Event overview

Walkout 1 will screen as part of TAPE Collective Presents Exit Here at London Short Film Festival 2022.

Some time after a mysterious weather event caused a cloud of sand from a faraway desert to settle over an unnamed city, this miasma of dust shows no sign of lifting. Clogging up the eyes and choking off the horizon, it has become a fact of everyday life. In a nondescript apartment somewhere in the city, a woman convenes a gathering at which a group of young people are present. Like every young generation, they are a repository of hope for the future – albeit a future that seems equally murky and obscured. In Reman Sadani’s Walkout 1, the assembled young people are also the involuntary subjects of a prophecy, passed down from an elder who was seized by an apparition of a youthful cohort walking ever-upwards towards the clearing sky. To pave the way for the realisation of that vision, the protagonists, following the lead of their female instructor, move large quantities of sand into mounds and slopes – each repeated ritual action steadily re-affirming the instructor’s indefatigable faith; each exhortation for greater effort after the latest attempt comes to nothing slowly spreading doubt amongst the group.

Part physical theatre, part workshop polemic, Sadani’s film dramatises the emotions and tensions of what comes to be recognised as an unmistakably pivotal moment, where power is broken down, and allegiances start to shift. It is an ambiguity deftly encapsulated in the project’s title: rather than actors preparing to walk out onto stage after the curtain has lifted, we end up witnessing a show of dissent, a collective rejection of a preordained script; less a demonstration (as in an illustration or a rehearsal) than a demonstration (as in a protest and a refusal).

Walkout 1 was commissioned for the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2020: Hindsight, a collaboration between Jerwood Arts and Film and Video Umbrella.

Event details

Details

18 January 2022

Rich Mix, London Short Film Festival 

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The main entrance to Rich Mix can be accessed via a ramp on Bethnal Green Road.

Once inside, lifts provide access to all gallery/performance spaces and all three of cinema screens, each of which has wheelchair bays.

There are four accessible toilets in venue with RADAR locks: on the ground floor near reception / The Stage / Indi-go café on the first floor by the Cinema Bar and near the Mezzanine Gallery / Cinema
outside Screen 2 (2nd floor in the cinema) on the fourth floor near The Studio and The Mix space

The Box Office and “The Stage” space features an induction loop that can be use by switching most hearing aids to the ‘T’ position. There is also an infrared system in “The Main Space” and in our cinema screens which require the use of headsets (which Rich Mix provides). This system can also provide auto-description for some films  – please ask at the Box Office for details.

Rich Mix accepts CEA cards, which allow disabled guests to receive a free carer’s ticket with any cinema ticket they buy.

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