The Killing of Čáhcerávga (2020)

(Installation 2019 / Film 2020)
Written and directed by Miracle Workers Collective
Format: 16:9 | Film / Installation
Length: 29 min. 10 sec.

Miracle Workers Collective’s audiovisual work The Killing of Čáhcerávga is a collision of five different short films that, together, tell a disjointed, communal narrative. Employing a call-and-response strategy, the film expresses a politicised dialogue around indigeneity, movement, and migration in contemporary Europe. The collective shares an interest in exploring the potentiality in disciplinary disobedience. Travelling through dreamscapes, lonely snowy plains, absurdist capitalist underwaters, greenhouse gardens, and desert landscapes, the film stretches into a practice of impossible spatial rules, strange dialogue practices, and inconclusive, unresolved scenic endings.

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The Miracle Workers Collective is formed and informed by a transdisciplinary and anational community, sharing and developing an ecology of practices within the framework of the 58th Venice Biennale. The films are written and directed by Miracle Workers Collective's members: Maryan Abdulkarim, Khadar Ahmed, Hassan Blasim, Sonya Lindfors, Leena Pukki, Martta Tuomaala, Christopher L. Thomas and Suvi West.

Written and Directed by Maryan Abdulkarim, Khadar Ahmed, Hassan Blasim, Sonya Lindfors, Leena Pukki, Martta Tuomaala, Christopher L. Thomas, Suvi West
Performers of the pool scene: Noora Dadu, Iiris Hosia, Leena Pukki, Leo Tuominen, Martta Tuomaala & Giovanna Esposito Yussif 
Curated by Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Christopher Wessels & Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung 
Produced by Danai Anagnostou
Cinematography by Christopher L. Thomas
Editing by Miracle Workers Collective
Sound Design by Ilkka Kunttu
Music by Hánssa Ristena Kerttu/Kerttu Vuolab & Johannes Valkonen
Colorist Sarrah Wilkman

Supported by AVEK The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture, The City of Helsinki / Helsinki Biennale 2020, Visit Finland, The Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland, Saastamoinen Foundation, The Finnish Cultural Foundation & The Embassy of Finland in Rome.