HÆG(I)

Part of Reel Brazil: Mutinies in Video Art: CT20: JULY 2025

Curation & Cinematography: Nina Shen

Reel Brazil, creatively directed and co‑curated by Nina Shen, is a time-based media festival showing historic and contemporary video art, experimental film, and live and digital commissions. It examines systems of control, highlights outsider voices, and rethinks art as a tool for social and political change. The festival links Brazil’s post-dictatorship era with the UK’s Thatcher years—especially the UK National Disability Movement—to trace a history of creative resistance enabled by new technologies.

[re] puls [iv] e

witch, sorceress, enchantress,

sister three

fury

cognate with haga

 enclosure. becoming boundary

portion of woodland marked off for cutting

Hedge-rider

fae; crippled daemon, spirit

to fly about, smoke, be scattered, vanish

one of the magic words

for which there is no male form

diviner, truthseeker, soothsayer,

of prophetic and oracular

greatly feared and respected

haga is the haw-

in hawthorn

confusion blending with the heathenish

we who straddle the hedge 

the boundary between the civilised world and the

wild world beyond

a foot in each reality

local healer

root collector

living in the open

sleeping under bushes

moving from village to village