Re:Vision: The Dislocation of Amber
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This screening will open with Len Lye’s animated short film COLOUR FLIGHT. The film was restored by San Francisco Film Preserve and scanned utilizing Scan2Screen’s multispectral scanning technology. The original elements are preserved at the British Film Institute. This restoration was undertaken in close collaboration with the Len Lye Foundation and Ngā Taonga National Archive.
In The Dislocation of Amber, director Hussein Shariffe uses abandoned areas of the Sudanese city of Suakin to stage abstracted, ambiguous performances. His actors move through corners, windows, doorways like shadows of this once thriving port, now fallen to ruin. Lacerating sunshine and intense color dominate the frame, while musician Abdel-Aziz Dawoud chants the words of the Sufi poem “The Wine Ode” by Ibn Al-Faridh. Shariffe himself said this about Suakin in 1974 — “Only faint traces of its ancient affluence are apparent today … a dimmed reflection in a cracked mirror; empty eyes with the stars in a different house, laughter in another room.”
Restored at the Digital Film Restoration Unit of Cimatheque – Alternative Film Centre in 2025 using a 16mm positive print provided by Cinémathèque suisse. The restoration process was part of REMASTERED | The Digital Film Restoration Training Program. DCP provided by Arsenal Filminstitut e.V.
The Dislocation of Amber will screen with the following short:
YOU HIDE ME (Nii Kwate Owoo, Ghana and United Kingdom, 1970) 17m, DCP
In 1970, 26-year-old Ghanian filmmaker Nii Kwate Owoo gained entry to the vaults of the British Musuem (a privilege that cost him no less that 500 pounds sterling!) Shot in just one day, You Hide Me is a scathing indictment of colonial plunder, and the legitimacy given these crimes by the museum system. Highly controversial on its release, You Hide Me highlighted the hoarding of African art by the West decades before this topic began to be addressed in any concrete fashion by the institutions holding stolen works. — Kathy Rose O’Regan
This DCP copy is based on the original 16mm picture negative and was made possible by a collaboration between Arsenal Filminstitut e.V., the BFI (British Film Institute), and Owoo. DCP provided by Arsenal Filminstitut e.V.
Runtime
0h 53m
Year
1972
Director
Hussein Shariffe
Format
DCP
Country
Sudan
First Showing
September 26, 2026
Categories
RE:VISION — FESTIVAL OF RESTORATION AND REDISCOVERY
,
Featured
In The Dislocation of Amber, director Hussein Shariffe uses abandoned areas of the Sudanese city of Suakin to stage abstracted, ambiguous performances. His actors move through corners, windows, doorways like shadows of this once thriving port, now fallen to ruin. Lacerating sunshine and intense color dominate the frame, while musician Abdel-Aziz Dawoud chants the words of the Sufi poem “The Wine Ode” by Ibn Al-Faridh. Shariffe himself said this about Suakin in 1974 — “Only faint traces of its ancient affluence are apparent today … a dimmed reflection in a cracked mirror; empty eyes with the stars in a different house, laughter in another room.”
Restored at the Digital Film Restoration Unit of Cimatheque – Alternative Film Centre in 2025 using a 16mm positive print provided by Cinémathèque suisse. The restoration process was part of REMASTERED | The Digital Film Restoration Training Program. DCP provided by Arsenal Filminstitut e.V.
The Dislocation of Amber will screen with the following short:
YOU HIDE ME (Nii Kwate Owoo, Ghana and United Kingdom, 1970) 17m, DCP
In 1970, 26-year-old Ghanian filmmaker Nii Kwate Owoo gained entry to the vaults of the British Musuem (a privilege that cost him no less that 500 pounds sterling!) Shot in just one day, You Hide Me is a scathing indictment of colonial plunder, and the legitimacy given these crimes by the museum system. Highly controversial on its release, You Hide Me highlighted the hoarding of African art by the West decades before this topic began to be addressed in any concrete fashion by the institutions holding stolen works. — Kathy Rose O’Regan
This DCP copy is based on the original 16mm picture negative and was made possible by a collaboration between Arsenal Filminstitut e.V., the BFI (British Film Institute), and Owoo. DCP provided by Arsenal Filminstitut e.V.
Runtime
0h 53m
Year
1972
Director
Hussein Shariffe
Format
DCP
Country
Sudan
First Showing
September 26, 2026
Categories
RE:VISION — FESTIVAL OF RESTORATION AND REDISCOVERY
,
Featured
