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Ijen / London

A short film made in preparation for a longer one called After London, where a young woman goes on a quest to find the mythical

Denim Sky

Made between 2018-2022 across different time scales and locations across the world. Denim Sky is a feature film in three parts. Together the trilogy is

The Miracle on George Green

A film borne of walking through Hackney Marshes repeatedly in 2020 imagining my childhood – the things I experienced and those I wished I had,

i eye aye

A post-mortem archaeology of the creative path followed by a non-existent artist into the cosmological eternal present.(A tissue of truthful lies documented by the Archive

Through a Shimmering Prism, We Made a Way

Three sisters move through public/political space – a square, bridge, garden and hill- in this exploration of Black diaspora. Taking as its starting point empty

Beyond The Substrata

Throughout 2019 artist Larry Achiampong developed new work in response to his residency with Waltham Forest Council. Working within an abandoned supermarket in Leyton, the

Fire in My Belly

A necessary youthful take echoing on questions of home, community and crisis in the metropolitan city of London.

A close-up image features the back of the head of young dark skinned man in the foreground. In the background, three other men, out of focus, are facing him. They are seated in what appears to be a gymnasium with a wooden floor. Bright blue balls are scattered across the floor.

The Destructors

the destructors is shot on location in Tower Hamlets, east London. Reflecting on Perretta’s experience as a young man of Bangladeshi heritage, the work reconsiders

nine nine nine nine nine

‘nine nine nine nine nine’ amalgamates archival and recent 16mm footage filmed inside 53 Beck Road, one of several on a road of terraced houses

Relic 3

The fourth film in what is currently a quadrilogy, ‘Relic 3’ forms part of Relic Traveller: Phase 2, a multi-disciplinary project by Larry Achiampong, which

(Reprise) Sunday’s Best

‘(Reprise) Sunday’s Best’ considers how belief systems within the diaspora are inflected by colonial histories. As part of his current research Larry Achiampong is interested

Surviving You, Always

The transcendental promise of psychedelic drugs versus a concrete and violent experience of metropolitan living. These two opposing realities form the backdrop for an adolescent

Ph03nix Rising: The 3rd Son

‘Ph03nix Rising: The Third Son’ is a short film and coming of age story. A textured synthesis of sci-fi, biblical and noir. Here late 20th

British Summer

British summer was shot on midsummer 2017 during the early production of Crowtrap, days after the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The image of the tower is

INFINITY Minus Infinity

INFINITY minus Infinity draws on several inspirations: the modernist verse of the Jamaican poet Una Marson, the alluvial invocations of the Martinican philosopher and poet

Themes: London