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Kamala Ibrahim Ishag: States of Oneness

Speaking from her studio and home garden in Khartoum, Sudan, in 2022, artist Kamala Ibrahim Ishag shares some of the memories and stories behind her work.

The artist also roots her practice around subjects including women, spiritualism, Zar ceremonies, plants, and stories from her mother and grandmothers in relation to how she has experienced them.

"Kamala Ibrahim Ishag: States of Oneness" was on view at Serpentine South in October 2022 to January 2023. Find out more: www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/kamala-ibrahim-ishag

  • Suzannah Mirghani
    Director
  • Suzannah Mirghani
    Producer
  • Fiona Glen
    Producer
  • Hanna Girma
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 50 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 7, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    Sudan, United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    Sudan
  • Language:
    Arabic
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Serpentine Galleries
    London
    United Kingdom
    October 7, 2022
    World Premiere
Distribution Information
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25OAKwT2wYk&ab_channel=Serpentine
Director Biography - Suzannah Mirghani

Suzannah Mirghani is a Sudanese-Russian writer, researcher, and media studies/museum studies graduate. She is the writer, director, and producer of AL-SIT (2020), screening on Netflix Middle East, and winner of the Canal+ Award at the 2021 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival as well as 6 Academy Award qualifying prizes at Tampere Film Festival; LA Shorts; BronzeLens; New Orleans Film Festival; AFI Fest; and Interfilm Berlin. Her latest shorts are the social media satire VIRTUAL VOICE (2021), which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival; and a 2022 film about the Sudanese artist Kamala Ishag, commissioned by the Serpentine Galleries. Suzannah's poem “Some Behavioral Characteristics of the Sudanese Honey Bee (Apis mellifera sudanensis)” was published in the Black SWANA issue of Mizna 23, no. 2 (2023). She is working on her first feature COTTON QUEEN, which won the ArteKino Award at L’Atelier de la Cinéfondation at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022.

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