The Survivor Lens - Traumascapes Arts Festival 2025
Running time: 160 mins
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Release Date: 27/04/2025
This Survivor Lens programme explores a perspective of 'return' – what it means to safely bring traumatic histories to the present through archive, performance, and observation. Andrea Luka Zimmerman utilise their personal and public archive to explore the details missed – the person(s) left behind – and bring them into the safety of the present. Julie-Yara Atz returns to Homs in Syria to witness how the landscape has shifted in the years since its traumatic envelopment, searching for the joy amidst the rubble. Julian Triandafyllou uses performance to revive a long-lost friend, central to their experience of abuse, and depicts a process of healing.
Join the filmmakers for the first screenings of these works, followed by a panel discussion chaired by Laura E. Fischer.
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The Traumascapes Arts Festival 2025 explores survivorhood through exhibition, film screenings, dance performances, talks, and workshops – all from the perspective of artists and researchers with lived experience of trauma. See full programme here: https://traumascapes.org/arts-festival
Traumascapes is a survivor-led organisation dedicated to changing the ecosystem of trauma and creating new horizons for survivors through art and science. Our work is bold, disruptive, and caring. It serves trauma survivors (individuals and groups who have been impacted by traumatic experiences such as, but not limited to, violence or abuse), persons and communities who support survivors, & professionals, organisations, and institutions who work on trauma and/or with survivors.
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18:00 - 18:10 Introduction by Laura E. Fischer and Julian Triandafyllou
18:10 - 19:16 Premiere - "I remember once you needed me", 65', 2020 by Julian Triandafyllou
19:16 - 19:25 Short Break
19:25 - 19:35 Introductions by Julie-Yara Atz and Andrea Luka Zimmerman
19:35 - 19:44 Special Preview - "On Dreams, the Surreal and the Liberation of Syria (and Homs)", 9', 2025 by Julie-Yara Atz
19:45 - 20:10 Special Preview - "My Name is Luka", 25', 2025 by Andrea Luka Zimmerman
20:10 - 20:40 Q&A chaired by Laura E. Fischer
