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Solidarity FM is back and taking over Uus Laine on Sunday 21st of June, this time as a one-day film festival, in support of Refugee Week 2026.

We are excited to announce the 2026 Refugee Week Film Festival – a curated programme of short and feature-length films exploring themes of displacement, migration, belonging, and community, from around the world.

Films:
TSKALTUBO (2023) (tskahll-TOO-boh) dir. Toby Andris
MIGRANTS (2020) dir. Hugo Caby, Antoine Dupriez, Aubin Kubiak, Lucas Lermytte, Zoé Devise
A WORLD NOT OURS (2014) dir. MAHDI FLEIFEL

The doors open at 12:00.
The film program starts at 14:00.

The event is free of charge.

The event is hosted by Vivek Jain. Vivek Jain is an artist, filmmaker and cultural worker, exploring the entangled narratives of the social, political and philosophical. His work is polyphonic in its expression and thematic in its approach. It is not tied to a single medium and is a form of resistance against disciplinary ideas. He is currently engaged in practice-led artistic research, A Seeker’s Guide to Belonging, reconceptualising cinema as an expansive medium, exploring precarity at the intersection of filmmaking and contemporary art practices. One of the key nodes of the research engages with the practice of Collective Cinema.
www.innominatevivek.com

Refugee Week is the world’s largest arts and culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. The festival is a partnership project coordinated by Counterpoints Arts.
https://refugeeweek.org/ by @innominatevivek

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4 months ago

Forgotten Kins

(Audio-Visual Installation | Hand-Engraved Metal Sheet - 150cm x 100cm, Mono Soundscape)

Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic, on 24th March 2020, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed a nationwide lockdown at 4 hours’ notice, leaving around 100 million migrant workers stranded. As their food and money dwindled, they were forced to return to their hometowns and villages, the only places offering a chance at a dignified life. [1]

With public transport halted, many walked over 1,000 km. Others cycled, hitchhiked, or paid for private trucks. Tragically, many died from hunger, exhaustion, accidents, or criminal negligence by the Railways. Some even took their own lives. [2]

Their deaths, much like their lives, remained largely anonymous. Apart from brief social media outrage, their stories went unnoticed and unmourned.

Forgotten Kins is a memorial artwork in the form of an audio-visual installation seeking to confront the murky moral grounds of an unequal and unjust society while remembering those who are never acknowledged. It also reminds us of the intangible, ungraspable, yet inescapable contemporary reality where dehumanisation is a constant act and not every life is valued the same.

[1] Chahak Gupta (2020). 170 and counting: Migrant workers killed by the lockdown, Newslaundry https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/06/03/170-and-counting-migrant-workers-killed-by-the-lockdown

[2] Aman, Kanika Sharma, Krushna R, & Thejesh GN. (2020). India Non Virus Deaths During lockdown (Version 20200730) [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4630198

Documentation by @silvia_longhi

Realised at @fabricaresearchcentre by @innominatevivek

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2 years ago

नींबू-मिर्ची | lemon-chilli

(2024 - Yarn, Plastic, Steel Wires and Copper Wires - 10cm x 20cm)

A makeshift sculpture embodying Indian culture's unique blend of tradition and modernity.

From the workshop with @lorenzovitturi at @fabricaresearchcentre

#sculpture #culture taken in Fabrica by @innominatevivek

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2 years ago

Self-Portrait.

Kodak Portra 400 - 120 | Cambo

From the workshop with @txemasalvans :)

@fabricaresearchcentre

#analogphotography #120film #kodakportra400 taken in Fabrica by @innominatevivek

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3 years ago

Speculating Proto-Cinema at Fabrica (@fabricaresearchcentre) submerged in fog.

Performative elements of the six-month long artistic research project, ‘Longing for Being’ during the final exposition, ‘Blooming in Embers’.

Program Director @carlosmcasas
Residency Coordinator @francescaperp

Documentation by @silvia_longhi taken in Fabrica by @innominatevivek

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3 years ago

'Longing for Being' - Photographic Research

Ilford HP4 Plus 125 | 120 Film

#analog #blackandwhite #artisticresearch #fabrica #italy taken in Fabrica by @innominatevivek

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3 years ago

'Longing for Being' - Photographic Research

Ilford HP4 Plus 125 | 120 Film

#analog #blackandwhite #artisticresearch #fabrica #italy taken in Fabrica by @innominatevivek

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3 years ago

'Longing for Being' - Photographic Research

Ilford HP4 Plus 125 | 120 Film

#analog #blackandwhite #artisticresearch #fabrica #italy by @innominatevivek

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3 years ago

OPEN CALL - ‘sein und zeit’ (‘being and time’)

‘sein und zeit’ is an invitation for artistic producers from all over the world, irrespective of their field of practice, to share their artwork, exploring the quotidian feeling of the presence of absence.

The submission can be
A) Visual - images, photographic experiments, visual arts Or
B) Audial - sound art, field recordings, or sonic experiments.

This project is an attempt to instigate and investigate the idea of belonging, grappling with post-colonial identity, through the intervention of multiple experienced realities from a myriad of cultures and the senses of sight and sound.

It also aims to open a unique transcultural dialogue between Tadao Ando’s prolific architecture of the Fabrica Research Center and abstract identities.

To apply, please email your submission to Vivek.Jain@fabrica.it before the 31st of December, accompanied by a brief statement describing the work. If you deem it relevant you can add a portfolio/CV, but this is not mandatory.

a curatorial project by Vivek Jain @innominatevivek by @innominatevivek

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3 years ago

IÑÂL ~ (इन्याल)

“The feeling evoked by the slice of sunlight that makes its way through the concrete jungle of suburbia on a cold day and caresses your animate body briefly, making you believe that ‘the life ain’t that bad after all’”

A made-up word made with made-up letters, during 'City Surface Sampling' workshop with @teamthursday at @fabricaresearchcentre

#typography #fontdesign #storytelling taken in Fabrica by @innominatevivek

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3 years ago

Cracks.

Stills from an experimental micro film created during 'Inhabiting Cinema' Workshop, conducted by Matthew C. Wilson @matthew_c_wilson and Emilia Tapprest @nvisible.studio at @fabricaresearchcentre

#experimentalfilm
#sensorial
#movingimage by @innominatevivek

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3 years ago

Confluence | An Experimental Short - circa 2022

Filmed on Super 16mm (Kodak Vision3 200T)

a film by @innominatevivek

featuring @robingrantsperling

with the incredible support of @layriotta & Gábor Kotányi

#experimentalfilm #visualart #16mm #arri #budapest #confluence #filmisnotdead #kodak taken in Budapest, Hungary by @innominatevivek

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3 years ago