KERMA Screening and Q&A at Chisenhale Art Place

A Debut Documentary Film

UK, 2025 -50 min.

A meditative retrospective into Kerma, uncompromising in her pursuit of artistic expression and discoveries of form, emptiness, reality, and attachment.

Our Pay What You Can system ensures that everyone can take part while supporting Chisenhale Studios which is such a vital creative space for our resident artists. Contributions helps enable us to offer more events like this in the future. Thank you for giving what you can.

Suggestions:

£3.50 – Reduced Rate

£8 – Standard Rate

£12.50 – Supporter Rate

£15–£20 – Contributor / Benefactor Rate

Synopsis

Artist, Ingrid Kerma, shares the roots of her unfettered creative processes, philosophical influences, and experimentation that intrinsically shape her identity as an artist, mother, daughter and partner. Kerma challenges the antithetical commodification and commercialisation of her work which seeks not to conform but instead connect to profound phenomenological and existential self-discovery. If the intention is not to make art, does art’s most authentic expression then become a paradox? This portrait of Kerma is a retrospective that traces queer love, fragmented motherhood, volatility, faith, and determination.

INSTAGRAM - @kermadoc

TRAILER - Film trailer

Project leaders & crew members

Alice Trott (director): Alice Trott is a London-based interdisciplinary storyteller, researcher, and critical thinker through film, art & literature.

Trott seeks to invoke meditations and impressions of relationships to the self, community and space. These translations are, for her, fundamental necessities in living and communicating with levity, meaning and empathy in an increasingly polarised, fragmented and politicised world.

In her filmmaking, non-intrusive and observational camera work leaves a compassionate view of her subjects without judgment and expose complex inner webs. In her hybrid-fiction work, Alice performs herself and works with non-actors to find where performance, vulnerability and authenticity meet.

Trott is also a co-founder of Woodland Studio (artist studio and collective), which was the base for Undergrowth Collective until 2020. Woodland Studio has hosted a number of events and workshops since 2018, from immersive exhibitions and music events, to life drawing, film nights and DIY tattooing.

Roisin Larkin (executive producer): Roisin Larkin is a film producer based in London. Experienced on the pre-production, production and post of immersive, live action, 2D/CG and stop-motion animation. Experimental films include When the Wind Blows (2023) and Shona’s Dream (2024), which screened at Exploding Cinema, London, and The Cube, Bristol. Commercial Credits include Disney’s Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire (2023). Clients include Blink Ink, Electric Theatre Collective and Immersive International.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/roisin-larkin-136b4982/?originalSubdomain=uk

Arthur Davies-Evitt (creative producer): Arthur Davies-Evitt is a musician and anthropological filmmaker based in London. Using sensory ethnography and experimental sound design, he uses film as a means to explore the impacts of post traumatic stress disorder and the tensions within human/non-human relationships. Previous projects include Within A Thousand Flowers (2021), Let’s Meet Here (2020). Producer credits include Sobromesa (2021/22) and Barnacled (2022).

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthur-davies-evitt/?originalSubdomain=uk

Simona Pranulytė (cinematographer): Simona Pranulytė is a London-based cinematographer originally from Lithuania. She graduated from Westminster Film School with a BA (Hons) in Film & Television Production specialising in cinematography. Simona started out as a lighting assistant & gaffer and now works primarily as a director of photography. Her diverse body of work includes narrative short films, music videos and commercials for high-end brands.

https://simonapranulyte.co.uk/

Philippa Godsalve (film composer): Philippa Godsalve is a composer, experimental electroacoustic musician and producer. A harpist with roots in traditional Irish and Scottish traditional music, the harp is utilised often in her work to create intricate, textural soundscapes. Documentary film credits include experimental short When the wind Blows (2023) and documentary comedy short The Scottish Play (2023), which screened at UK and international film festivals.

https://www.philippagodsalve.com/

Connor Adam (gaffer / camera assistant): Connor Adam graduated from Westminster Film School with a BA (Hons) in Film & Television Production specialising in cinematography and continued working in the industry as a lighting gaffer & cinematographer, until more recently as a photographer. Connor works in editorial and portraiture, with clients such as Adidas, Calvin Klein, Coca Cola, COS, Gucci, Heineken and Vogue.

https://www.connoradam.co.uk/

Stefania Fatini (sound recordist): Stefania Fatini, originally from Italy and now based in London, has more than 25 years of experience as a freelance sound recordist and re-recording engineer. She works primarily for independent film productions helping them to achieve effective sound from production to post-production.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefania-fantini-1b009552/?originalSubdomain=uk

Access

Chisenhale Dance Space is on the second floor, accessed by a staircase only, and therefore, regrettably, is not wheelchair accessible. The staircase to the lounge and two studios has 40 steps and an uninterrupted banister on the right-hand side. There are no steps or stairs once you are on studio level. We regret that the buzzer is too high to reach from most wheelchairs. Our external fire exit is a straight line of 40 steps with a banister along both sides.

Please get in touch if you need to use this exit to enter the building, or if you have any other access requirements. CDS has two bathrooms, one with two cubicles, and the other with one cubicle and one urinal. Both are gender neutral.

We acknowledges the limitations of the building and would be happy to discuss any ways that we can help you access our activities.