Mohamed Sleiman Labat, DESERT PHOSfate (2023). Film still 27 Mar 2025
17:00 - 19:00
Screening: DESERT PHOSfate
On 27 March, Framer Framed hosts a screening of the experimental documentary film DESERT PHOSfate by Sahrawi artist Mohamed Sleiman Labat. It explores the impact of phosphate mining on the Sahrawi community and is based on narratives and philosophies rooted in the Sahrawi way of living, honouring Indigenous storytelling. Following the screening, the artist will be present digitally for a conversation on the work.
Phosphate is in high demand globally for its use in high nutrient fertiliser. Its excessive use has led to widespread pollution and eutrophication, and the process of mining has caused environmental degradation and habitat destruction. DESERT PHOSfate (2023) weaves through the story of phosphate, exploring the multi-layered narrations about connections to land, sand particles, plants, human and mineral displacement. It explores ways of thinking and talking about realities, metaphors and poetics in the desert, highlighting connections between ecological justice, colonial practices, environmental violence, traces of anthropocentric mineral extractions, and the loss of Indigenous ways of knowing and telling about the world.
This public screening takes place in the context of the two-day workshop Raw Earth Agriculture hosted by Jeff Diamanti, Rebeca Ibáñez Martín and Florence Evans in collaboration with Framer Framed. The workshop invites critical interventions on two inputs into the agricultural supply chains feeding Western Europe that are often overlooked: phosphate fertilisers originating in the Western Sahara and migrant labor tending the greenhouse crops of southern Spain and the Netherlands. Centring the political ecology of industrial agriculture, the workshop includes film screenings and a field trip to the largest agribulk terminal in Europe (Amsterdam Bulk Terminal) as well as talks from artists, architects, and activist scholars across two days.
Raw Earth Agriculture workshop participants include Audrey Samson and Francisco Gallardo from FRAUD collective, Anam Mehta (UC Santa Barbara), Sasha Engelmann (Royal Holloway University), Melody Matin (Forensic Architecture), Anastasia Eggers (NL based artist), Merve Bedir (co-founder of Matbakh-Mutfak مطبخ), Elena Longhin (TU Delft), Dominique Arsenault (Ecological Economics at Université de Technologie de Compiègne), Rahael Mathews (University of Amsterdam), Rebeca Ibáñez Martín (Meerten’s Institute), Florence Evans (University of Amsterdam), and Mohamed Sleiman Labat (Sahrawi filmmaker).
This event is in English. Admission is free.
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Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.
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Mohamed Sleiman Labat
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