Dina Mimi
/Engaged Art/
Thousand Thrashing Arms, a 13-minute short film, explores the relationship between liberation, dreams and movement by interweaving found footage and material filmed by Mimi. Drawing on the words of Frantz Fanon—“The first thing which the native learns is to stay in his place and not to go beyond certain limits... I dream I am jumping, swimming, running, climbing”—the film invokes a fractured dream by layering pixelated imagery over high-resolution footage, stretching the viewer’s imagination of liberatory insurgencies. As the film juxtaposes scenes of human and non-human figures in motion—statues, animals, and bodies wrapped in cloth—it depicts states of captivity, traversing tunnels, and resistance from underground.
Dina Mimi is a visual artist who works with experimental filmmaking and lecture performances to research how and when bodies become sites of resistance. In her practice this question unfolds through moving images, with editing serving as a playground for engaging with opacity and its fluctuating presence. She brushes up against footage that defies easy interpretation, desires to be ungraspable or is in the act of vanishing. Her ongoing exploration of non-linear narration aims to challenge and disfigure conventional imaginations of bodies as sites of resistance.