Germinate is a touring programme featuring artists’ film and video works by seven filmmakers from West Asia, including artists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Türkiye. It establishes connections between the diverse ecologies, industries, people, and folklore of the South Caucasus.
From mockumentary to triptych cinema, these storytelling forms offer an immersive experience that navigates between the past and present landscapes of post-Soviet states. Through the captivating aesthetics of West Asian cinema, these films resonate with the collective desire for transformation, germinating in the soil of the Black Sea and sowing seeds of ancestral reclamation and liberation.
Germinate marks Platform Asia’s inaugural touring programme of West Asian art as part of a new series with the same title.
Download the PDF to read more about each artwork here.
Anahid Yahjian, Corpus Callosum, 2014-16, 12:22 mins
Kamee Abrahamian, Ensouled, 2023, 7:52 mins
Tekla Aslanishvili & Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Stone of Hell, 2021, 24:23 mins
Sophio Medoidze, Black sea is really black, 2015, 5:55 mins
Orkhan Huseynov & Saliou Traoré, Flowers of North America, 2018, 3:36 mins
Ela Kazdal, Leke, 2022, 3:26 mins
Image credit: Still from Stone of Hell by Tekla Aslanishvili & Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, 2021.
Curated and produced by Platform Asia. Supported by Arts Council England.
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