Platform for experimental and anthropological film, 
sound, and landscape cinema.
Year round activity




A nigh of Knowing Nothing


Payal Kapadia
2021, France, India, 96 min., English subtitles

sunday 17 april 2022 at WORM Rotterdam

In A night of knowing nothing, nostalgic black and white grainy images of student protests and state oppression linger on the screen. In between socialist chants, a defeaning silence underscores the reading of unsent love letters by L, a student whose lover leaves her to witness the uprise alone, while failing to stand up to his parents who forbid their love due to them belonging to different social classes.









South


Morgan Quiantance
2020, UK, 28 minutes, English

20 October 2021 at worm rotterdam

In his short film South, artist and writer Morgan Quaintance traces two anti-racist and anti-authoritarian liberation movements – in South London and Chicago’s South Side. Interlinked with the filmmaker’s own history and biography, South is an expressionistic exploration of what happens when speech is muted, bracketed, and ignored.


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One Says No


Zhao Dayong
2020, People’s Republic of China, 96 minutes, Mandarin with English subtitles

20 October 2021 at worm rotterdam

The feature documentary One Says No traces the expansions and contractions of gentrificiation and urban development in China's Jilin Province. Chronicling the life of an activist who aims to resist and challenge property developers, filmmaker Zhao Dayong points towards the perflexing power relations between government and citizens. Filmed in the tradition of observational cinema, One Says No is a poignant portrait of a village in flux.