One Last Night: Chapter 1- The story of Akhtar Syed Kamal by Liz Fernando
Germany based artist Liz Fernando who finds her roots in conceptual research weaves a tale from her own memories. It initiates from her formative years in Germany interlinked with those of her parents, and also others who share experiences of the lasting impact of migration in its multifariousness. Through aural records paired with some images, One Last Night in Sri Lanka, drifts into her parents first intimate relationship, the feeling of belonging built while cohabiting, their first friend in a new land, sharing food, hope optimism as well as a known collective lingual code in the midst of their arrival in a city still divided by the Cold War.