Themes: Body

Shared Resources

Shared Resources depicts the filmmaker’s family after their father was fired from his job as a debt collector and their parents declared bankruptcy, largely due

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The inside of a body, including a spine and other organs, appears on a laptop screen. A white person's hand reaches toward the laptop's keyboard. On top of the hand, a caption reads: “In learning to make a film, students are taught to show rather than tell.”

After… After… (Access)

This essay film confronts questions of accessibility through the filmmaker’s attempt to record their open-heart surgery. The film follows them, as they prepare for the

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Image of a statue of an angel with wings holding a cross in the background and in the foreground, a hand slightly covering the lens on the left side of the frame and the entire right side of the frame is tinted red.

Circe’s Dream

Circe’s Dream is part of a larger body of work that reimagines the myth of Medea through the lens of her displacement from Colchis (modern-day

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Layered Black and White Still of a Woman Standing facing the camera in multiple positions.

Shedding

A performance for the Bolex camera in which dimensions of stasis and movement are physically enacted by filming at varying frame rates. A still figure,

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The Retreat

Exile as a space for transnational solidarity is explored through a discursive, community-oriented process of production centred around a retreat in the South of France.

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VEINS (slightly soft)

During the COVID 19 pandemic, Williams Gamaker was invited by artist Bianca Hlywa to support Refugee Solidarity South East, an online fundraiser for Lewisham Refugee

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The Bang Straws

The Bang Straws is an aesthetically invigorating reworking of the casting process of Sidney Franklin’s The Good Earth (1937) a film notorious for a white

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Brown Queers

Brown Queers developed out of a need to create a docufiction of intersectional identity through multiple personas and styles in 2016, when the footage for

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Sunday Afternoon

In Sunday Afternoon (2000), the artist is seen lying on the floor while her lurcher dog licks and touches her, its legs at first glance

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MEN OF MY DREAMS

A reflection on the artist’s exile, the film unfolds a series of vignettes that toy with the unstable ground between dream and reality. Seeking the

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Medina Wasl: Connecting Town

The film traces the Middle Eastern landscapes in the California desert back to histories of violence and colonization through agriculture, architecture and military intervention. Shot

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