Ningwasum

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formations: Ningwasum film screening and conversation with subash thebe limbu

thursday 24th november 2022 7pm gmt

Ningwasum is a Yakthung science fiction documentary film work narrated by Miksam, a time traveller from a future Indigenous Nation. The film follows two time travellers, Miksam and Mingsoma, played by Subin Limbu and Shanta Nepali respectively, in the Himalayas weaving indigenous folk stories, culture, climate change and science fiction. The film explores notions of time, space and memory, and how realities and the sense of now could be different for different communities. 

Drawing from Adivasi Futurism and inspired by Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurism, Ningwasum imagines a future from an Indigenous perspective where they have agency, technology, sovereignty and also their indigenous knowledge, culture, ethics and storytelling still intact. 

The next event is our third online CADALFEST collaboration with Formations and Bonington Gallery on 24 November: Join us for a screening of Ningwasum by Subash Thebe Limbu followed by a conversation with Subash, Nicole Thiara and Joshua Lockwood-Moran. Please note that you can only watch the film live; however, the conversation will remain online after the live film screening. 

Subash Thebe Limbu is an indigenous artist from Yakthung (Limbu) Nation in eastern Nepal. He works with sound, film, music, performance, painting and podcast.
Subash has MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (2016), BA in Fine Art from Middlesex University (2011), and Intermediate in Fine Art from Lalit Kala Campus, Kathmandu.
His works are inspired by socio-political issues, resistance and science/speculative fiction. Migration, climate change, and indigeneity or Adivasi Futurism as he calls it,  are recurring themes in his works.
He is based in Newa Nation (Kathmandu) and London.

Miss the live event? You can watch the conversation with Subash Thebe Limbu on YouTube below!