VWAYAZER

*Disclaimer: the screening session that begins at 20:45 contains nudity.

17:00

ISABELLE CHOWREE – Sol Solo, GLORIA VIVIEN – Vertigo, VASHISH SOOBAH – Mandir Chapter II, MAX ANISH GOWRIAH – La Linn, HEMANSINGH LUTCHMUM – Endlicht, CHRISTOPHER AMURAT – Bann Vag Laliberte

30 MIN BREAK

18:45

HARRIET FLEURIOT – Idle talk, AZIM MOOLLAN – cosmic cornucopia, AMANDA RAMASAWMY – Provenance, KMVH – Cent titres, KAREN PANG – meditasyon, MATI JHURRY – we can escape to the great sunshine, CAROLINE DÉODAT – Sous le ciel des fétiches

55 MIN BREAK

20:45 

SHIRAZ BAYJOO – Pran Kouraz, AVILDSEEN BHEEKHOO – Class 5, CHARLES ARTHUR FEUVRIER – Savat DoDo, AUDREY ALBERT – Sea Walkers: A Conversation with Granper Yam and Granmer Philine, RESORT – Mist of Remembered Inheritors, KIM YIP TONG – Pie dan lo

Vwayazer presents a collection of moving image works that engage with narratives of movement unfolding in and around our island, while reflecting on the significance of travel within our collective memory. This gathering is a recognition of the travellers who, like mystics, never let go of their tether to the island across time and space.

As islanders, our unconscious holds conflicting memories of movement. Within the island’s layered histories we are all children of displacement. In our bones lie tales of travel, the migrations that were forced, the migrations that were chosen. Travel is a common denominator of our fractured identities; it has forged our collective culture of resilience.

Travel and the way we intuit and experience it as islanders today sometimes tends to our inherited traumas; travel also functions as an escape, a status symbol, a self-actualisation journey. For many of us, travel is a search for more hopeful futures.

These ideas of travel stand in contradiction to the images produced by the hospitality industry, which perpetuate romanticised notions of travel: voyages of discovery and fantasies of a tropical paradise ready for consumption or entertainment.

Vwayazer gathers a selection of Moving Image works in diverse forms, inviting engagement in alternative forms of storytelling. The selected pieces range from lyrical documentaries to video performance, animation, cinema-adjacent works and more experimental pieces.

Vwayazer reminds us of the distance between two points. It is an attempt at building bridges between islanders and the diaspora, between what’s far and what’s near, between what’s past and what is yet to come.