Film Screening: White Walls (IN PRACTICE)

Join us for a screening of WHITE WALLS – a horror short film commissioned by HJL as part of IN PRACTICE. 

Marginalised communities have long had our stories and histories silenced, destroyed, denied and delegitimised. Yet amidst this cultural violence, people have resisted by creating underground, unfunded films and writing scripts that push boundaries, refusing to allow capitalism to rob us of an art form we deserve to take part in. 

In the words of HJL Executive Director Farzana Khan, “there has been a strategic disruption of narrative and memory” and it is our collective responsibility to recover the stories of our community, elders, and ancestors. 

Current Editorial Steward Aiyana Goodfellow presents WHITE WALLS as part of their exploitation of horror and healing. Horror and healing may seem paradoxical at the surface, but often are deeply intertwined. Experiences of horror are often an invitation towards healing, supporting us to reclaim fear and discomfort from systems of oppression and enable us to be emotionally resilient as we long for a better world. Building capacity for societal healing – including healing justice – means developing an understanding of our relationship to horror: our encounters with it, our reactions to it. 

Please note, tickets for the screening are highly limited. Please book if you are confident in your attendance and cancel your ticket if this changes so someone on the waiting list can join us for the evening.

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About the Film:

WHITE WALLS

A young person caught in an oppressive institution meets with a professional. They are faced with a choice: survival within the system or freedoms found on paths unknown.

Dir. by Aiyana Goodfellow

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Schedule: 

Doors open at 5.30pm. The screening will begin at 6pm sharp, followed by presentations of responding artwork and a panel featuring WHITE WALLS crew and writers which will be facilitated by previous Editorial Steward Molly Lipson. 

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Aiyana Goodfellow is a multidisciplinary artist – whose work spans writing, music, theatre, and filmmaking – and a community organiser.

They are the author of Radical Companionship: Rejecting Pethood & Embracing Our Multispecies World and INNOCENCE & CORRUPTION: An abolitionist understanding of youth oppression (both published before their 18th birthday!).

Aiyana has founded many social justice projects, particularly those that focus on the liberation of nonhuman animals, children and young people, and neurodivergent people. Aiyana is co-founder and co-publisher at The Anima Print and founding executive director of NEUROMANCERS.

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Access:

Please take a COVID test before arriving and do not attend if symptomatic. Masking is mandatory - we will have some spare masks available at the venue. Full COVID policy will be shared via email once you have registered. There will be live BSL. If you require additional access measures to enable your participation, please email inpractice@healingjusticeldn.org.

The venue has a limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces available, alongside accessible gender neutral bathrooms and access provisions for Deaf and blind attendees.

If you have any questions ahead of the screening, please contact inpractice@healingjusticeldn.org as soon as possible.