By Project by Amber Ablett
The Supplementary School Film Club will meet four times this spring/summer at NOGOODS and will run a film program that raises questions and thoughts on what bell hooks describes as our hetro-patriatchal, white supremacist, capitalist, imperialist, ableist, transphobic society.
Each session will take one of these oppressions as a starting point and for each session an artist, art worker, activist or member of the community will be invited to select a film and give a short personal introduction. You are welcome to join for the whole series of films and discussion so that we can look together at the intersections between different communities and challenges.
The SSFC takes its inspiration from The Black Supplementary School Movement begun in 1960s Britain by West Indian communities. Where the racist educational system was failing students from Black and minority backgrounds, local community leaders would hold Saturday schools, creating a space where they were safe to learn without discrimination or judgement. SSFC brings this ethos to Bergen, creating an open environment to learn and think together focused on the way structures that shape and constrict our society and to collectivity imagine a more nurturing future.
Screenings:
The Color of Fear, Lee Mun Wah, 1994. Selected by Amber Ablett.
Disclosure, Sam Feder, 2020. Selected by Joakim Eide.
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, 2013. Shola Lynch. Selectedby Comrades Inc
Bixa Travesty (2018) by Cláudia Priscilla & Kiko Goifman. Selected by Nayara Leite.
Amber Ablett
I am Amber Ablett, an artist and writer, based in Bergen. I work with conversation and shared thinking as materials with an interest in how we can understand the complexity of our identities through learning about and with other people. My work often takes the shape of frameworks for discussion, using re-enactment, conversational experiments and play, music and craft as tools for questioning our roles within society and who our society serves. My work is informed by the experience of navigating between the multiple, and often conflicting, parts our my own identity, as a woman of Irish, Caribbean and British heritage at home in Norway. My current research looks at the role of rest within activism and societal growth, and a collective project to reframe limiting narratives on Black fatherhood.
