Saturday 15 March 2025, 4.15pm
Free, booking required
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Join Tina Pasotra for an intimate screening of her latest short film, Jamni (2025), together with two previous works from the last decade of her practice.
As part of the event, Pasotra will be joined by thinker, creator, writer and dreamer, Dr Aditi Jaganathan. Jaganathan’s work explores the emergent cultures which arise from Black and brown diasporic connectivities in city spaces. With a particular interest in creativity as decolonial praxis, she situates the imagination as a radical site of refusal and resistance.
But Where Are You From?
Wales | 2017 | 3’ | NC | Tina Pasotra
Commissioned for Channel 4’s Random Acts, this is an abstract moving canvas exploring architecture, dance, and the fluidity of cultural identity.
I Choose
Wales | 2020 | 11’ | adv 12a | Tina Pasotra
Pasotra’s BAFTA-nominated drama short tells the story of a young woman who sacrifices all that she has ever known to start a new life in Wales.
Jamni
Wales | 2025 | 8’ | adv 12a | Tina Pasotra
Shifting between archival film and present-day footage of Pasotra’s mother and the landscape of Wales, this is a poetic and multi-layered meditation on class, agency, and the healing ability of the natural world, woven together through an original sonic composition featuring the artist’s voice.
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Artist Biography
Tina Pasotra is an artist, director and filmmaker based in Cardiff. She works across moving image, writing, dance, and installation, while seeking to centre practices of collaboration, care and equity. Tina Pasotra won the Director for Film award at The Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2025.
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With support from Arts Council Wales Create Fund.
What people are saying
"Tina Pasotra’s work has an emotional quality which enables her to explore different realities, geographies and temporalities with such depth, tenderness and care.
As a jury, we are thrilled to award the £20,000 Fellowship to Tina, she is a vital voice and a promising filmmaker. We hope this substantial resource will propel her forward to realise her clear ambitions for the future, full of exploration, play and the unknown!”
—The Arts Foundation Futures Awards Film Award jury member and film director and screenwriter, Joanna Hogg