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Our People Are Our Mountains present ‘Desert PHOSfate’ by Mohamed Sleiman Labat
Screening Thursday 11th June at Mosaic Rooms
Desert PHOSfate (2023) is an experimental documentary by Sahrawi artist Mohamed Sleiman Labat that traces the entanglement of phosphate extraction, nomadic displacement, self determination narrating poetic connections between land, sand particles, human, plant and mineral displacement.
Blending oral histories, dream narration, and testimonies, the film reflects a narrative rooted in Sahrawi philosophy and ways of living, resisting western documentary structures. The film moves through chapters that echo the rhythms of sandstorms; it builds up and collapses several times, then it roars loudly before it winds down to a deathly silence and then back to roaring again.
Through the voices of farmers, storytellers, agricultural researchers and musicians the film chronicles the enduring impacts of colonial extraction foregrounding practices of ecological resilience, food sovereignty and ecological justice in Sahrawi refugee camps, against the backdrop of colonial environmental violence
The film is shown as part of Our People are Our Mountains study session which interrogated the idea of the ‘desert’ as an empty or barren landscape, attending to the histories of care, land stewardship and knowledge of nomadic desert communities whose lives have been intricately connected to their environments.
All profits from sales will go to support the work of Mohamed Sleiman Labat.
Our People Are Our Mountains present ‘Desert PHOSfate’ by Mohamed Sleiman Labat
Screening Thursday 11th June at Mosaic Rooms
Desert PHOSfate (2023) is an experimental documentary by Sahrawi artist Mohamed Sleiman Labat that traces the entanglement of phosphate extraction, nomadic displacement, self determination narrating poetic connections between land, sand particles, human, plant and mineral displacement.
Blending oral histories, dream narration, and testimonies, the film reflects a narrative rooted in Sahrawi philosophy and ways of living, resisting western documentary structures. The film moves through chapters that echo the rhythms of sandstorms; it builds up and collapses several times, then it roars loudly before it winds down to a deathly silence and then back to roaring again.
Through the voices of farmers, storytellers, agricultural researchers and musicians the film chronicles the enduring impacts of colonial extraction foregrounding practices of ecological resilience, food sovereignty and ecological justice in Sahrawi refugee camps, against the backdrop of colonial environmental violence
The film is shown as part of Our People are Our Mountains study session which interrogated the idea of the ‘desert’ as an empty or barren landscape, attending to the histories of care, land stewardship and knowledge of nomadic desert communities whose lives have been intricately connected to their environments.
All profits from sales will go to support the work of Mohamed Sleiman Labat.