On The Circuit

Does performing daily routines before a camera shift the meaning of your work? Recreating labour in informal Moroccan mining pits in collaboration with the town’s residents, Randa Maroufi’s L’mina draws from Bertolt Brecht’s alienation effect.

In a not-too-distant future ravaged by a climate crisis, a team of scientists analyses archival footage of farmers from the past. Common Pear’s world-building occurs through a meeting point between fictional imagination and cinematic artifice.