Addis in London

This December, Ottica TV will host a migratory Video Festival from Addis Ababa at the A.P.T. Gallery in London. The line-up was first presented on the streets of the Ethiopian capital during 2015 and it is with great pleasure that we will be recreating this project here in London for one night in December.

The theme of this screening is ‘New Home’. Addis Ababa is currently in the midst of massive transformation. It is expanding drastically, over a quarter of its current residents relocating to new neighbourhoods. Old communities are disappearing and new ones are forming.

Video shorts by 16 artists from Africa and Worldwide explore and interpret the complex idea of 'New Home'; whether it be an external literally physical home, an internal psychological home or a cyber-home.