Shot in Berlin, Four Parts of a Folding Screen explores exclusion, statelessness and the legalised theft and sale of everyday family possessions by the National Socialist regime. In part, centred around objects, this programme also includes two short films: Peter Todd's a spoon and Anthea Kennedy & Ian Wiblin’s Fenster. The filmmakers will be in conversation with Gareth Evans after the screening.

Four Parts of a Folding Screen
Anthea Kennedy & Ian Wiblin, 2018, 83 min

Based on documents found in Berlin archives, Four Parts of a Folding Screen explores exclusion, statelessness and the legalised theft and sale of everyday family possessions by the National Socialist regime. A voice, enigmatic and sometimes uncertain, foretells of, relates and recalls the routine processes of injustice and their legacy: the creation of a diaspora of household objects, scattered amongst buildings that no longer exist. This experimental essay film explores the space between documentary and fiction. “…The camera searches for secrets in contemporary public space. Slowly, an image of a person and a history emerges in this delicate and moving film essay.” – IFFR, 2018

a spoon
Peter Todd, 2019, 2'30 min

Commissioned by Margaret Tait 100. "Images gathered into a film. Images from earlier works and some new. I have always found spoons amazing things. Often beautiful, and ever useful. So I have made a film for them. Thank you spoons." – Peter Todd

Fenster
Anthea Kennedy & Ian Wiblin, 2024, 5’30 min

Aunt Erika writes in her diary. Aunt Emma leaps out of the window. Uncle Ernst is excluded from school. We build a new city. Fenster is a reworking of a few shots from Four Parts of a Folding Screen.

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Anthea Kennedy and Ian Wiblin have had their experimental film essay work shown internationally at numerous festivals and other events. They are currently working on a feature length film project centred around the German-Jewish bird song recordist, Ludwig Koch.

Peter Todd works with film both as a maker and curator. His programme Together: Overlapping Histories, Friendships & Dialogues screened at Close-Up in April.

Gareth Evans is a London-based writer, curator, producer, publisher and event host.