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Patrick

Luke Fowler’s work has long asked how we come to know someone in their absence. He has explored this question by creating posthumous portraits of

Collective Hum

A short film exploring the polyphony of collectivity in the desires, motivations and stories that foreground the histories and present(s) of Black British sound. Collective

Bathing

Bathing explores themes of contamination, cleanliness, and debility through performance and dance. Between the performer’s movements, the video intersperses images of oil, spit, fluid landscapes,

The Foundation

The Foundation combines footage shot around the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles alongside choreographed sequences in a specially-constructed set. Together they form a

Two black people hunched over are grabbing each other by shoulders with arms stretched out.

The names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered

This is a story of the artist’s grandfather, the story of the ‘land’ and the story of an encounter with Nigeria—retold at a single point

Specialised Technique

William Sellers and the Colonial Film Unit developed a framework for colonial cinema, this included slow edits, no camera tricks and minimal camera movement. Hundreds

Her Name in My Mouth

Invoking a lineage of female ancestors through embodiment, gesture and the archive, Her Name in My Mouth reimagines the Aba Women’s War, a major anti-colonial

We Need New Names

We Need New Names is an essay video work examining contemporary Nigerian diasporic female identity through the contradictions inherent to an ethnographic reading of the

Sitting on a Man

Traditionally, women in Igbo speaking parts of Nigeria, came together to protest the behaviour of men by sitting on or making war on them by

Grain

‘Grain’ (2016) is a portrait of Anna Halprin’s Mountain Home Studio built by her husband and environmental architect Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009). A voiceover from Daria

Correspondência um

Correspondência um. is a collaboration with dance artist Susanne Mayer, taking its title from a year long correspondence and studio practice. The choreography for this

Bball Curriculum

BBall Curriculum is an investigation around the male body in relation to the artist’s own through scenes of homosocial bonding where men dance, play ball

Home

A short film depicting a woman putting her children to sleep, cleaning dishes, then dancing with a ghost. Shot on Super 16mm film, Home uses

Catalogue

A portrait of Jennifer Pike (1919-2016) who together with Antrum, improvises where there is no given narrative: no definitive catalogue or index ‘about’, certainly no

Dissonant

In Dissonant, Manon de Boer films dancer Cynthia Loemij while the latter dances for about 10 minutes to Eugène Ysaÿe’s 3 sonatas for violin solo

Themes: Dance