Leviathan Cycle, Episode 6: Ding Ling and Senait
Still from Leviathan Cycle, Episode 6: Ding Ling & Senait (2020) HD video, 18’46”. Commissioned by CCA Tel Aviv, Outset Foundation for Contemporary Art, The (He)art for He(art) Program (Francisca Viudes), and Arts Council England. Courtesy of UBIK Productions.
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Still from Leviathan Cycle, Episode 6: Ding Ling & Senait (2020) HD video, 18’46”. Commissioned by CCA Tel Aviv, Outset Foundation for Contemporary Art, The (He)art for He(art) Program (Francisca Viudes), and Arts Council England. Courtesy of UBIK Productions.
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Still from Leviathan Cycle, Episode 6: Ding Ling & Senait (2020) HD video, 18’46”. Commissioned by CCA Tel Aviv, Outset Foundation for Contemporary Art, The (He)art for He(art) Program (Francisca Viudes), and Arts Council England. Courtesy of UBIK Productions.
Synopsis
Ding Ling, a research scientist who fled Indonesia in the wake of rising sea levels, disembarks from the cargo ship on which she had been living. She moves onwards to explore new/old territories, revealing something of her past in Indonesia and China via Singapore.
The episode DING LING AND SENAIT is a moment in Shezad Dawood's episodic film series 'Leviathan Cycle', shifting the narrative from one of breakdown and fragmentation to a focus on methodologies for surviving the future.
https://leviathan-cycle.com/information
Details
- Year
- 2020
- Type of film
- Shorts
- Running Time
- 18 min 46 sec
- Format
- HD Video
- Director
- Shezad Dawood
- Producer
- Elizabeth Benjamin
- Editor
- Sergio Vega Borrego
- Screenwriter
- Shezad Dawood
- Director of Photography
- Michael Miroshnik, Bart Sienkiewicz
- Sound
- Rupert Clervaux
- Music
- Obaa Sima written and performed by Ata Kak, courtesy of Awesome Tapes from Afriac
- Principal Cast
- Jennifer Lim, Senait Zebrabrucbc, Emib Barahni, Bhasker Patel
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 28th June 2021
