BEK Opening Week 2025: Everything Worthwhile is Done with Other People by Rehana Zaman and Everything Worthwhile Collective

Bergen Kjøtt, Skutevikstorget 1 02.02.2025 18.0002.02.2025 20.00

Published

Sunday, February 2
Bergen Kjøtt, Skutevikstorget 1
Time: 18:00-20:00
Free

Join us for a film screening and conversation with the artists. Everything Worthwhile is Done with Other People takes up the conversations, experiences and freedom dreams of a group of women affected by the carceral state, as encountered through the UK government’s hostile environment policy and prison system. 

This work began as a series of workshops led through Hibiscus Initiatives framed around questions of criminality, innocence and citizenship, perceived through the lens of gender, race and class.

Everything Worthwhile Collective are a group made up of women from South Africa, Ghana, Jamaica, Albania, Nigeria and Iraq who came together around the workshops of the project (2018 – 2023). Through these sessions the technical facets of filmmaking were deconstructed, through theatre games and improvisation, camera and sound recording, storytelling and testimony. Central to this process of congregating has been the sharing of experiences, offering mutual support, advice and tactics to address the interminable limbo of unanswered applications for leave to remain or appeal for asylum, alongside applications for housing or urgent medical care, or the need to reconstruct some semblance of stability after the traumatic impact of detention or a prison sentence.

Over the course of the last seven years our ambitions to create a collectively authored film have been held and nurtured through many shared meals, blossoming friendships and periodic trips to the beach.

Over the course of this process a polyvocal hybrid film emerged, offering a small glimpse into a group’s attempt to connect and form against punitive contexts that strive to diminish, reduce and disappear. The work articulates how in spite of these conditions, solidarity and love, can and does prevail.

REHANA ZAMAN

Rehana Zaman is an artist living and working in London. Her work speaks to notions of kinship and sociality, seeking out possibilities of intimacy and transgression within hostile contexts. Conversation and cooperative methods sit at the heart of her films which extend into texts, performances and group work.

Everything Worthwhile is Done with Other People
UK, 2023, Colour, Stereo, 16:9.
Original format: 16mm film / 2K Video.

Director/Camera/Editing: Rehana Zaman and Everything worthwhile Collective 
Producer: Amal Khalaf and Elizabeth Graham 
Production Coordinator: Layla Gatens 
Second Camera: Chinekwu Okoronkwo. 
Sound Recordists: Gisou Golshani, James Bull. 
Colour: Jason R. Moffat. 
Sound Design mix Richy Carey at èist sound. 
VFX  Tim Booth. 
Film telecine James Holcombe.
Commissioned by Serpentine Civic.

Accessibility

Bergen Kjøtt is an old factory currently working on improving access routes.  
They welcome service dogs and provide restroom facilities accessible to all genders and adapted for wheelchair users. 

Images: 1) Design by Blank Blank Studios. 2) Still from Everything Worthwhile is Done with Other People 3-5) Conversation with Rehana Zaman and Everything Worthwhile Collective at Bergen Kjøtt. Photo: BEK

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