Document Carla Novi Rana Plaza - Film
Sat 11 October 2014
Document 12 will play host to the premiere of artist Carla Novi’s new film and performance piece centred on the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh. Although Document is a film-festival in name, it is a multi-arts festival at heart- celebrating not only film’s ability to draw attention to human rights abuses but referencing journalism, visual arts, theatre and art performance as tools to educate and inform.
In February 2013, Carla Novi was invited to take part in Britto International Artists Workshop in Dhaka, Bangladesh. As part of her project she visited a garment factory in Dhaka to interview women workers. Two months after her return to Glasgow, the garment factory that she visited in Rana Plaza collapsed, leaving more than 1,000 workers dead- one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
In the wake of the tragedy, Novi returned to Bangladesh and reconnected with survivor Dilora Begum. In collaboration with Begum, Novi has crafted a new performance piece that fuses themes of globilisation, workers and women’s rights, and the economic- and the ethical- toll our desire for fast-fashion has taken on the developing world.
As a prelude to the performance itself, Novi will screen a documentary film that follows this personal journey: from her first visit to Dhaka before the factory collapsed, to her return a year later, where she witnesses the aftermath of the tragedy. As the artist deals with her own pain and loss, she embarks on a mission to try to find the fifteen garment workers that she met in Rana Plaza before the catastrophe.
The film will be screened in the CCA Club Room at 7.30PM on Saturday 11 October. Novi will be in attendance for a Q & A afterwards to shed light on the project and answer any questions from the audience.
The performance will take place in CCA 5 at 4PM on Sunday 12 October. The estimated running time is one hour.
