Your Ecstatic Self
Artist talk with Rehana Zaman
Your Ecstatic Self is a programme of recent artists’ moving image, exploring processes of self-discovery, curated by Morgan Quaintance and Abirami Logendran.
From sexual and spiritual liberation to states of heightened awareness and presentness reached through physical practice, the programme is punctuated by recordings of James Baldwin reading from his classic novel Giovanni’s Room.
Join us for a Q&A with Rehana Zaman led by Abirami Logendran after the screening.
Where
Cinema
In contrast to the epiphanic encounter’s ‘mystic instant’ (the single moment in which the hitherto secular subject converts to a given theological position) each of the works in this programme explore processes of transformation over time. As such, works are driven by the force of different mental and physical realisations unfolding across the duration of each film.
This program is curated by artist and curator Morgan Quaintance and Abirami Logendran and was first screened at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London earlier this year.
Programme
Fallen Day (受难日) by Xiaolu Wang
Your Ecstatic Self by Rehana Zaman
ALDONA by Emilija Škarnulytė
Full Out by Sarah Ballard
Title
Your Ecstatic Self
Directed by
Xiaolu Wang, Rehana Zaman, Emilija Škarnulytė, Sarah Ballard
Year
2013, 2019, 2025
Languages
English, French, Lithuanian
Subtitles
English
Duration
80 min + 30 min talk
