Elvin Brandhi + Tengal's Forage Friction

Screening: Tengal Drilon & Elvin Brandhi's *Forage Friction* + live score + Q&A.

*Forage Friction* is an immersive, experimental sound/cinema art installation, film, and performance project exploring foraging practices of pre-colonial and pagan traditions within conflicted histories. Situated in a spiritual alloy of pre-colonial cosmologies, the project follows the narratives of plants: their uprooting, transformation, and role in forming communities through ritual acts of collective healing. Using a sensorial approach to expanded cinema with sonic pieces, *Forage Friction* constructs a cinematic topography where human, ecological, and spiritual systems are entangled.

Screening: Khabat Abas's *Bombshell Cello.*

*Bombshell Cello* is a cello cut out of a bombshell found in the bazaar of Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, in December 2019. The transformation of the military object into an art object shows the deconstruction of the symbols of culture and violence. The sound of the instrument represents the sound that affected our senses through listening during war time, how we perceived sound, and how it shaped both society and individuals.

Luigi Manteanni: “T2S” (Terror to Skull).

T2S explores Neurorealist Listening: phenomena where listening triggers auditory paranoia via deception, disruption, and sensory stress techniques, from military cognitohazard psyops (e.g., Havana syndrome, Operation Wandering Soul) to frequency intermissions and hijacking.

Ilana Blumberg: live sewing piece

Presented by False Locust

This is an 18+ event