Shirine Shah is a moving image artist and poet currently developing their practice at Conditions Studio Programme, Croydon. Their films have been screened in Iran, America, and Portugal. Their previous commissions include The Turner Contemporary and Vogue Fabrics. Ask them anything.

Co-creator of House of Victories, Matt Feldman is an artist and filmmaker living and working in Milwaukee. His practice often responds to specific geographies through installations that incorporate 16mm film, sculpture, and sound. By hybridising documentary, diary, and abstraction his works seeks to unpack the political and ecological concerns of particular landscapes.His works have been exhibited internationally at a variety of film festivals including Film Diary NYC at Millennium Film Workshop and CICLOPE at Cinema Sāo Jorge in Lisbon. His most recent exhibition Strange Phenomena, completed during his residency with Eastcheap Projects in Letchworth Garden City, investigates the town’s history as a hub for the Theosophical Society and their impact on the broader Garden City Movement.

House of Victories (2022, 16mm, 7 minutes) explores the local Islamic community of the writer and their musings into socialised identity and the abyss that bridges religion and the fallacy of language. Shot in various suburban areas of London and the wider UK, the film combines the natural and constructed realities of a hidden self. What begins as an abstract stream of consciousness exploring the slippages between language and gender transforms into a diaristic account of the writer’s return to their childhood mosque and the reconciliation of religion and spirituality. Explored through English voice and Urdu script, the cinematographic intention lies within esoteric truth, and the liberation that comes within not knowing.

Something Heavy Moved Upstairs (2023, mini DV, 7 minutes) is a film about a maddening toy and the poetics of masculinity, inheritance, and ritual.