A Rich Seam - SET Film Festival: The Wages of John Pernia

Screening of THE WAGES OF JOHN PERNIA at the SET Film Festival, London. SET presents a programme of films that explore the radical power of emulation, mirroring, and memorialising as tools to repair the past and to weave new futures. Approaching film as a medium through which time can be unravelled and refabricated, these works bridge voids and fill in the blanks, stitching fictions into the margins of historical record and creating memorial devices for futures yet to come. From a queer reimagining of U.S. pioneer narratives to the braided strands of a mother and daughter’s genetic archive, and the restoration of architectural memory from the scraps of a war-torn territory, the works in this programme ask how film can uncover, re-stage, and intertwine forgotten histories and imagined memories. They offer, in the words of one, “No answer, but an echo.”