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Suffocation

Kaurna Land / 2022 / 3m / English

In-Person: Tues 27 June / 20:15 BST

Online: 23 - 29 June

A sharp interrogation of colonialism and its effects on our social world and living environment presented as a defiant poetry performance.

How heavy are lungs, forced to draw in air toxified by war and degradation? In this poetry film, Palestinian filmmaker Reema Saad and Dominic Guerrera, a Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri poet, collaborate to envision a future of liberation, free from the violent legacies of oppression of Indigenous people. Shot around the site of an abandoned ship on Kaurna Land, otherwise known as Adelaide, Australia, Suffocation (2022) questions what sorts of changes Earth would undergo without relenting assaults on the natural world.

  • Directed, filmed and edited by Reema Saad

    Poetry by Dominic Guerrera

    Drone footage by Benjamin Hobbs

    Music by Syd Sibley

  • Captions by Sarya Wu

    British Sign Language by Grace Buckle

    BSL Editing by Tao-Anas Le Thanh

    Audio Descriptions provided by the International Digital Centre

Listen to…

Filmmaker Reema Saad and poet Dominic Guerrera talk about Suffocation in our Audio Programme, Before the Applause - available wherever you get your podcasts.

Read Response

Banishing colonial dust

A Response to Suffocation, written by Georgina Quach