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[Image Description: In a dimly lit room, a white woman with blonde hair covers her face with her hands. Her eyes appear to be closed

After… After… (Access)

[Image description: The inside of a body, including a spine and other organs, appears on a laptop screen. A white person’s hand reaches toward the

Soldiers lower to the ground, doing a training exercise in a green space in a park, framed by a black border. Beneath the image there’s a caption that reads: “Or another way of saying it is: how these images are put to work.”

An All-Around Feel Good

[Image description: Soldiers lower to the ground, doing a training exercise in a green space in a park, framed by a u-shaped black border that

Being Blue

In 2023, Fowler embarked on a residency at Prospect Cottage, the former home of artist, filmmaker and activist Derek Jarman (1942 – 1994). Jarman moved

Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)

“Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)” is an experimental film focusing on interwoven narratives around the mutual struggle against Portuguese colonialism between India and

E-MINOR

E-Minor’s starting point is a linoleum tile depicting a clown’s face that existed in the basement of Hill’s grandparents’ home on Staten Island, New York.

Being John Smith

“An autobiographical reflection on his unassuming name leads the filmmaker down a wayward path through family photographs, personal archives, and internet searches. Alternately wry and

Images Were Burning

A reflection on images of violence, the film strings together excerpts from Medoidze’s writing and archive footage. Filmed in the vicinity of Hotel Tbilisi, during

This Long Long Long Century

An essay written with screenshots collected from movies I watched on my computer. The digital screenshots were printed on 35mm slide and presented as an

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

The Fruit is There to be Eaten

‘The Fruit is There To Be Eaten’, the second instalment of the Dissolution Trilogy is based on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Black Narcissus (1947).

House of Women

In House of Women (2017), the artist recasts the role of a silent, dancing girl named Kanchi in the film Black Narcissus (1947). The coveted

Casting Kanchi

Casting Kanchi (2015) is a spatialised and expanded version of House of Women (2017) and a response to the casting of white actor Jean Simmons

Lagareh – The Last Born

Lagerah – The Last Born is a work anchored around theories of abolition, rebellion, ancestral knowledge and love. Shot on location in Scotland, London and

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

Themes: Politics and protest