Presented in collaboration with Framer Framed as part of the exhibition Between Fires: Irradiated Imaginations and Anti-Nuclear Solidarities, this event brings together a film programme followed by a public lecture with visual artists, researchers and human rights activists. The programme addresses the intergenerational impacts and slow violence of nuclear colonialism from a gender-focused perspective, examining how radioactive legacies continue to shape bodies, landscapes and social worlds.

The evening brings together a selection of short films and concludes with Sahara: Counter-Poetics of Encirclement, a performative lecture by Maïa Tellit Hawad. Drawing on Tuareg experiences and the imaginaries of a wounded desert stretching across the central Sahara, the lecture rethinks how futures are imagined and reclaimed from territories marked by radioactivity, dispossession and long-term ecological damage.

This event is part of Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 connecting a wide range of artistic practices under the theme Melted for Love. Find out more about the program and artists here on the website of Sonic Acts.