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          March 19 – 30, 2025

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              Melted into the Sun

              Saodat Ismailova / Uzbekistan, Italy & Portugal / 2024 / World Premiere / 36 min

              A mythical figure from the 8th century is resurrected in a visually stunning work from Uzbekistan that reflects on how ideas circulate and resonate in a new form.

              Saodat Ismailova’s ‘Melted Into the Sun’ is inspired by the ambiguous figure of Al-Muqannaʿ (‘The Veiled One’), a dyer who became a spiritual and political agitator in South Central Asia in the 8th century, while speculating on the cultural and political echoes of his revolutionary ideas. His legacy, which today can be seen as ‘proto-socialist’, was appropriated by the regional Soviet propaganda machine as a nativist heroic example of how to rise up and fight for a common sharing of property and wealth. The figure is embodied by Uzbek poet Jontemir Jondor in a visually stunning work that has been exhibited here as an installation and can now be experienced on the big screen for the first time.