Themes: Video Essay

UPROOTED

UPROOTED. A film about where the artist was born and grew up. The film is a poetic response to childhood, growing up in Guyana and

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Art Class

Art Class is a filmed performance lecture playing on, and exploring, the perennial tension between the two key words in its title. It uses the

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Shouting in Whispers

A collaged film work that takes open access online film clips to asks questions about personal responsibility, empathy and action. Moments in history knock up

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Moveable Bridge

Moveable Bridge, 2017, made on a residency in Hull, draws together Nina Simone, Philip Larkin, Winifred Holtby and the Housemartins. Partly, Cammock reveals the way

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The Long Note

Exploring social histories through film, photography, print, text and performances, Helen Cammock creates multiple and layered narratives that are not linear, allowing the cyclical nature

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The Messenger

The Messenger tells a brief history of the Arctic icebreaker, beginning with the Yermak, built on the Tyne for the Russian Czar in 1898. The

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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

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