SCREENING: Uncensored Lilac

𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐦 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐚 𝐀𝐥-𝐒𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐡 and 𝐉𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐧
𝑼𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒄
Screening
5–26 August 2026 | Aksioma | Project Space, Ljubljana
> aksioma.org/uncensored-lilac

𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐖𝐄𝐃, 𝟓 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝟖 𝐏𝐌

🩶🪽🕯️🫧🪞✨🌙🦢🐇👄

A group of goddesses and their assembly of familiars, pets, servants, and technologies are lounging. Separated from one another, they share a land but not a common ground. They have been invaded. They are pretty, hot, bothered, and bored. They are ready to destroy each other. They look deep into the camera and recite their deepest wishes, hopes, dreams, and fantasies. Meanwhile, temperatures are rising. They morph and grow and make their rage known. Quick to anger, their tempers rise with the heat.

𝑈𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑐 (2022) by 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐦 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐚 𝐀𝐥-𝐒𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐡 and 𝐉𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐧 tells a story about revenge and desire. The film follows a group of goddesses and their companions. Their land and ways of communication with each other have been destroyed by climate collapse, and as the temperature rises, strange forms of dissonant and dissident behaviour emerge between them. Set in a dreamlike hallucinatory landscape, the film features a series of monologues given by these mega-femme entities who have everything and nothing to say. They describe their hopes and desires, bicker, interact from a distance, and refuse to unite. In the cultivation of an economy where hotness equals power, this kind of global warming is no surprise – rising tempers and rising temperatures. Increasingly isolated from each other, they hold on tight to their apolitical, apathetic, consumer-driven dreams.