Film screening of fugue notes
Join us for the first screening of fugue notes (2025) by Selina Ershadi since its remastering for its inclusion in the London BFI Film Festival. This film was included in the Anatomy of Place, Sites of Becoming section of the festival which considered how spaces hold the weight of what came before and trace memory and the body as terrain shifts and transform time. The film will run a loop during this evening time period.
This kaupapa is presented in association with CIRCUIT. fugue notes (2025) was commissioned by CIRCUIT with the support of Creative New Zealand for Leap to the Place of Two Pools (2025), curated by Erin Gleeson. Taking into account moving image’s traditional emphasis on the visual, Leap to the Place of Two Pools presented five new works by artists who resist or relinquish ocularcentrism through multisensorial knowledge systems.
WHAT TO EXPECT
This event is free.
This event is held at the gallery.
This location is accessible.
Booking encouraged but not essential.
Biography
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Selina Ershadi is an Iranian-born, Aotearoa based artist who works across filmmaking and writing, drawing upon personal and familial histories and archives. Ershadi’s work complicates straight-forward autobiography and troubles the camera’s relationship to lived reality, making visible the risks and failures that haunt any act of documenting. Her film Amator (2019), co-made with her mother Azita Chegini, is the first Farsi language artwork in the Te Papa Tongawera collection. Ershadi's work has been exhibited widely including Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, The Physics Room, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, and the 2025 BFI London Film Festival.