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Jackals and Drones (Chronicles of A Summer)

The narrative follows a road movie schema, but only superficially: a Belgian actress arrives in Tbilisi airport to travel to the medieval cave city of

Let us flow ვიდინოთ

For me the Tush people stand out for their dedication to their traditional way of life which is influenced by extreme weather conditions as much

Untitled

Directness. Bareness. Harshness. No fight left, no drama. A reduction, a kind of freedom. Words suggest a persons efforts to dissolve and minimise human contact,

I Carry It With Me Everywhere

Informed by interviews with first-generation migrants living in the UK, this short film weaves together the lives of multiple characters as they confront inherited ideas

Laughing Woman

A solitary person stands in the middle of an empty grassy green ground in brilliant sunshine, laughing directly to camera. Laughter, absurdity, ridicule and humour,

A Blemished Code

A Blemished Code gives voice through spoken and sung script to the work and life of artist Margaret Benyon, a pioneer in the use of

The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness

The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness (2021, 63:30) is my latest feature length series of collage films, is a compilation of 6 films created between 2015

A love

Filmed in the artist’s home neighbourhood and within a temporary community, A love foregrounds interaction, quiet and tender engagement, forms of love, respect, presence, absence,

An Excavation

In 2014, 45 crates of looted antiquities were discovered at Geneva Freeport in a warehouse belonging to disgraced antiquities dealer Robin Symes. They contained tens

Solitude

“…then on the shore of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.” 1818 John Keats Readings

Becoming Plant

Becoming Plant (2022) follows six dancers who participate in a therapeutic group experiment with psychedelics, while temporarily ‘living’ together on the demilitarised industrial site. While

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

You Can Never Touch the Same Water Twice

Filmmaker and artist Alberta Whittle traces Transatlantic ancestral trauma through her own voice, in song and spoken word and through her body.

What sound does the black atlantic make

Whittle’s 2019 filmwork What Sound Does the Blk Atlantic Make? departed from a visit to the archives of the North British Rubber Company, founded in

sorry, not sorry

Alberta Whittle’s Sorry, not sorry focuses on the pressure put on the Windrush generation to represent conflicting identities: the exotic with the alien; the carefree

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