4 Waters – Deep Implicancy
These fragments, sounds, and stories help us convey the experiential moment of entanglement, or rather, they describe an entangled moment prior to separation, what we call “Deep Implicancy”.
One such story we follow is water, both as it phase transitions with and into other matter including life, but also as it combines disparate geographies, bodies of/in water, and four islands within them – Lesvos, Haiti, Marshall Islands, Tiwi.
Through a series of experimental migrations and elemental crossings we begin to question the form of the universal human, its calcified and exceptional origins, and in particular its ethical program.
Wandering and wondering through a transformative figuring of justice, we ask, what if our image of the world recalled phase instead of measure? And what becomes of ethics if we let go of value?
Crew
Director | Arjuna Neuman, Denise Ferreira da Silva |
Editing | Arjuna Neuman, Mariam Mekiwi |
Music | Cobi Van Tonder, Arjuna Neuman |
Sound | Gabor Ripli, Katharina Weinstock |
Producers | Arjuna Neuman, Denise Ferreira da Silva |
Produced by
Arjuna Neuman
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Arjuna Neuman
Arjuna Neuman was born on an airplane in 1984, that’s why he has two passports. He is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. He studied at California Institute of the Arts. His projects have been shown at major biennials and exhibitions worldwide. As a writer he has published essays in various magazines.
Filmography
2012 My Marshall Islands; 27 min. 2014 First Fugue; 3 min. 2015 Caesium Forest; 71 min. 2016 Multicultural Dread; 30 min. · Serpent Rain; with Denise Ferreira da Silva, 30 min. 2019 4 Waters – Deep Implicancy; with Denise Ferreira da Silva
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2019
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Denise Ferreira da Silva is a Professor and Director of The Social Justice Institute (the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice) at the University of British Columbia. Prior, she was an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her work in the contemporary art sphere includes texts for publications, advising Natasha Ginwala, the curator for the Contour Biennale 8, as well as events and texts that form part of her own practice, “Poethical Readings” in collaboration with Valentina Desideri.
Filmography
2016 Serpent Rain; with Arjuna Neuman, 30 min. 2019 4 Waters – Deep Implicancy; with Arjuna Neuman
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2019