A Thousand Bodies
Short film program and conversation: Sarah Ballard and Mira Adoumier
From the confines of institutional walls to the precarious expanses of untethered thought, A Thousand Bodies is a film program that looks at the ways in which bodies and minds resist control and subvert hegemonic forces. With a conversation between Mira Adoumier and filmmaker Sarah Ballard after the screening.
The program is curated by Adoumier and Nour Ouayda (The Camelia Committee) and presented in collaboration with Images Festival 2025.
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Cinema
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Film program
It's under the flesh where you are tender (Agnès Hayden, 2023, 2 min)
for here am i sitting on a tin can far above the world (Gala Hernández López, 2024, 19 min)
Exit Through The Cuckoo's Nest (Nikola Ilic, 2024, 19 min)
Full Out (Sarah Ballard, 2024, 14 min)
Dans ma tête (Irina Tempea, 2024, 6 min)
About the program
A Thousand Bodies is a film program inspired by Deleuze and Guattari’s perspective on madness as developed in their book Anti-Oedipus. It explores the symptoms exhibited by the body as a response to an absence or a lack, and not as merely pathological. Here, symptoms are not failures but adaptations, offering a “sane” response to an increasingly insane world marked by the systemic violence of late capitalist societies.
From the confines of institutional walls to the precarious expanses of untethered thought, A Thousand Bodies is a film program that looks at the ways in which bodies and minds resist control and subvert hegemonic forces. It’s Under the Flesh Where You Are Tender by Agnès Hayden delves into the materiality of the body, silently piercing through the opacity of the skin to uncover what lies beyond the flesh. In Gala Hernández López’s for here am i sitting on a tin can far above the world, fear, imagination and profit converge, as thousands of individuals choose to be cryogenized awaiting better times. Exit Through the Cuckoo’s Nest by Nikola Ilic offers a searing critique of systemic oppression, revealing mental illness as the only way out of a compulsory military service in wartime; while Sarah Ballard’s Full Out delves into the transformative possibilities of the body as a site of violence, inexplicable impulses and radical change. In the final film of the program, In My Head, Irina Tempea plunges the audience into the fragmented landscape of inner turmoil shaped by a failing body due to a tentacular disease.
Together, these works question the boundaries between reason and madness, sickness and resilience, giving voice to untold stories of bodies that endure, resist, and refuse to be silenced."
– Mira Adoumier and Nour Ouayda (The Camelia Committee)
In collaboration with
Mira Adoumier is a researcher, filmmaker and visual artist. Carine Doumit is a film editor and writer. Nour Ouayda is a filmmaker and film programmer. Together, they form The Camelia Committee, exploring the multiple relationships between image, text, voice and sound, through writing, filmmaking and film programming.
A Thousand Bodies is part of a two-fold program, A Thousand Landscapes, A Thousand Bodies, developed and presented by The Camelia Committee as part of the Images Festival 2025 Curatorial Residency.Directed by
Agnès Hayden, Gala Hernández López, Irina Tempea, Nikola Ilic, Sarah Ballard
Subtitles
English
Duration
1h 30 min
Image above
Dans ma tête (Irina Tempea, 2024)
