Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
LA Filmforum presents filmmaker Naomi Uman's 2023 feature, *three sparks*. Filmmaker Naomi Uman has mentioned that “*three sparks* is a nightmare, a dream and an awakening”. It is a triptych story told in three parts. Extremely lyrical yet amoeba-like in form, the first part of the triptych engages the Legend of Rozafa and is told in song, just as the Albanian folktale itself is in. The second part absorbs us into the writings of artist and anthropologist Edith Durham, and appears to us cinematically in book form, just as the writings of Edith are found in. The third part captivates us through video recordings, speaking to us with the immediacy and directness modern stories are told in. The film plays with our senses, toggling with our consciousness as text itself communicates visually what is simultaneously heard, between linguistic languages we know and linguistic languages we do not speak. The rural and mountaineer landscapes activate various cultural phenomena that spur us into exploring landscapes and non-linearity, merging the lines between known and unknown future(s), past(s), and present(s). three sparks heightens the way our perception thinks about old laws, traditional gender relations, and various ways our presence as filmmakers and human beings is felt while making, and viewing, bodies full of world.