14 - 18 October '25
Screenings: 14-15 October '25
The Mandrake Hotel
20-21 Newman St
London W1T 1PG
We are pleased to announce our participation in the film programme for 2025's edition of Minor Attractions. You can watch our films throughout Tuesday 14th October and Wednesday 15th, between 12-9pm and 12-5pm respectively in the Masha Hari Theatre at The Mandrake Hotel.
Yuli Serfaty
The Belly of the Whale | 2019
Format: HD video, 3D model, motion capture, sound, found environment
Duration: 00:08:17
Soundscape in collaboration with Michael Wilkin.
Set in an archetypical forest landscape, The Belly of the Whale inspects a series of self-care rituals performed by an animated self-portrait. Trapped in the chasm between east and west, the video explores the ambiguity, plasticity and agency of cultural identities in a world shaped by immigration and borders, yet accompanied by an ever increasing accessibility to knowledge and communication.
Rosa Klerkx
Night | 2025
Format: Single-channel video with sound
Duration: 04:59
Often set in vast landscapes or overlooked interiors, Klerkx' work uses instructive methods and personal notation systems to develop loose, slow, and repetitive choreographies. Through this approach, she reflects on how we move through the world and how we search, quietly, for connection within it.
Sam Williams
Deep in The Eye and The Belly (Chapter 2) | 2023
Format: Single channel video with sound
Duration: 00:16:32
‘What if you don’t fancy being scaly? Scaling up? These are the kinds of questions Sam Williams imagines we will contemplate after the great flood, when our delicate ecosystem finally tips over and all but a lucky few are drowned. His multi-part film depicts the fate of a group of unrelated figures, strange to themselves, who are floating through a new ocean world in the belly of a taxidermy whale from a museum in Gothenburg. This real stuffed cetacean, still on display, was once used to house dinner parties for local dignitaries, but now forms a home for what look like social outcasts, wearing Coke cans for bracelets. Williams mixes the true history of this animal, with speculations about the future of humanity, to imagine life lived on or as a cetacean rather than anthropomorphic timescale. Stuck inside the belly of a whale, like Jonah, the survivors are forced into contemplation about the precarious society they have just left and the future they might have to embrace, as the questions indicate, against their will. And of course, their predicament leads to a whole set of questions of what it is to have a body, whether one ever possesses oneself, and the control exerted on their bodies by the society the survivors have just left.
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