SKULKESKOLEN presents Khartoum (2025) with Q&A

For the final evening of SKULKESKOLEN, Bergen Kunsthall screens Khartoum (2025, 80 mins).

Filmed on location with iPhones by four emerging Sudanese filmmakers - Anas Saeed, Rawia Al Hag, Brahim Snoopy and Timeea M. Ahmed - the film follows five residents of Khartoum as they search for survival and liberation in a city at war. Twelve year old Lokain and his best friend Wilson embark on a mission in Khartoum's rubbish dumps to buy two beautiful shirts. Khadmallah, a single mum and tea vendor, serves her daily clientele cardamom coffee and gossip whilst studying mathematics to realise her dream of starting a business. Jawad, a Sufi Rastafarian resistance volunteer rides a motorcycle and protests for a civilian government against the military and civil servant, and Majdi escapes office life by racing pigeons with his son.

When filming began, war broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces militia, displacing over ten million people. The filmmakers and participants fled to East Africa mid-production, where they developed new ways of continuing the film from exile. Combining green screen reconstruction, restaging, and animation, Khartoum becomes both a record of displacement and an act of collective cinematic resistance.

The film will be presented by artist and geographer Abdalla Eltayeb. This event is organised to raise funds for Sudan. 100% of the proceeds will be collected for Space Black, a London based design studio that explores alternative spatial futures for marginalised communities. If you cannot come to the screening but still want to contribute, you can donate via Bergen Kunsthall's vipps on #806376.

Space Black is a British Sudanese team, whose communities are directly impacted by the violence that has erupted in Sudan since clashes broke out in April 2023 between the Rapid Support Forces and Sudanese Armed Forces. Despite calls for ceasefires, heavy fighting has continued across the country with civilians caught in the crossfire. Space Black are working directly with Randa Osman, an aid worker who runs the organisation Droup Alkair (Path of Goodness). Randa and her team of volunteers have been working on the ground for 5+ years to support families that are registered with the organisation based on their specific needs. The fundraiser covers medical bills, helps families pay rent, school fees, school uniforms and food banks.

Abdalla Eltayeb is a cartographer, printmaker, and researcher based in Malmö. Working at the intersection of geospatial analysis and artistic practice, his work explores alternative forms of mapping rooted in memory, displacement, and Sudanese histories. Trained in GIS and daily engaged with maps in professional contexts, he is equally invested in challenging the authority of maps through imagining other forms of mapping. His recent projects use printmaking, archival fragments, and storytelling to trace erased journeys and to imagine otherwise geographies.

As part of Another Sun – a curatorial programme on the poetics and politics of the subsurface – Bergen Kunsthall presents SKULKESKOLEN, a five-day collective study bringing together artists and researchers from 2–6 September 2026. Through workshops, field trips, screenings, performances, role-playing games and other participatory forms, the programme explores how inherited relations to land, geology and extraction might be reorganised.

Participants include Abdalla Eltayeb, Anne Marie Deacy, Ase Brunborg Lie, Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Jennifer Mehigan, Dylan Kerr, Eimear Walshe, Hanni Kamaly, Ina Hagen, Karina Sletten, Katarina Dorothea Isaksen, Kathryn Yusoff, Dr. Memory Biwa, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Olan Monk, Tom K. Kemp and others to be confirmed.

SKULKESKOLEN is co-curated by Bergen Kunsthall Live Curator Jade Meili Barget and curator and professor Nora O' Murchú, developed with the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Limerick.

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