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Jennifer

The film is portrait of Jennifer – a friend of the filmmaker’s who is an enclosed Carmelite nun in a monastery in Ronda, Spain, where

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

Sunday’s Best

Sunday’s Best is a film and installation comprised of vivid audio and images of praise and worship sessions in a Ghanaian community church, married with

Changing Room

Changing Room is a video piece centred around the ceramic works made by George Cammock throughout his life, set in a space that has been

(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

Entangled Nightvisions

Philosopher Johnny Golding ruminates on a formative childhood experience, when her father brought home an early prototype of night vision he was working on for

Credits as at 24/10/2008

Invited to contribute an ‘artistic family tree’ to the LUX Associations Project in 2008, I created a document of my significant influences as I perceived

A short video about Tate Modern

In ‘A short video about Tate Modern’, I give an account of an experience that I had in October 2003 at Tate Modern in London;

Weed Killer

Inspired by artist-writer Catherine Lord’s memoir The Summer of Her Baldness (2004), a moving and irreverent account of the author’s experience of cancer. At the

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

South

Taking two anti-racist and anti-authoritarian liberation movements in South London and Chicago’s South Side as a point of departure, ‘South’ presents an expressionistic investigation of

A is for Artist

Following a tragedy, a young woman assembles photos from her father’s archive to encourage the pursuit of being an artist.

Street 66

Chronicling the life of Ghanaian housing activist Dora Boatemah and her influence on the regeneration of Angell Town Estate in Brixton, South London.

Tower XYZ

Accompanied by a lilting soundtrack, characters wander through London’s concrete jungle as the narrator reflects on the current state of the city and her imagined

I Die of Sadness Crying for You

“So what moves us when we hear copla? Are we weeping for them? Can we hear the residue of suffering in their performance, in the

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