In November 2025, our member Zumrad Mirzalieva curated Tracing Origins film programme for the Videogramos Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Bringing together four films from Central Asia, the programme explored how ideas of home, family, and belonging shift across generations. Moving between personal memory and collective ideology, the selection traced how displacement and extinction, be that of species, ideals or languages, continue to shape the region’s sense of self. Together, the films trace the fragile connections between past and present, reflecting on loss, inheritance and transformation.

About the festival

Videograms is a festival of video art, artist films and moving image practices, presenting contemporary creators and their works, often appearing outside the boundaries of the conventional film market. The word "videogram" literally means video - video - writing, so the goal of this festival is to present cinema and video art that not only reflects, but also actively creates history, extending visual consciousness, becoming a special means of expression or conversation.

Artists presented

• Nazira Karimi — Apat (2023)

• Saodat Ismailova — The Haunted (2017)

• Zumrad Mirzalieva — Tashkent 58–88 (2025)

• Alina Baitokova — Uzaq Jol (2025)

Curatorial statement