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Undercurrent 528

Undercurrent 528 draws on Stephen Dwoskin’s complex relationship with care, desire and everyday rituals as made visible in his vast oeuvre and reorients it from

The Hide

The Hide was shot over a three-year period (2019-2022), both in the remote mountainous region crossing Northern Portugal and Spain, and in Brussels. The work

Meaning in Action

Meaning in Action (2013, 4’10)

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

‘e sat or ‘e dizn’t

Sitting, Walking, Breathing, To the power of zen Or any number you like… “Ten minutes well-wasted” – Ubu Satori

Madness Remixed

Contains flashing images. From Beyonce to Miley Cyrus to Diana ross, all have worn Josephine Baker’s now infamous Banana Skirt, performed by Baker in 1927

A Lament for Power

This ambitious film explores the ethics of scientific discovery and the complex relationship between science, politics and race in our age of avatars, video gaming

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

business as usual: hostile environment

‘Business as usual’ is a set phrase used commonly in the business realm to manifest an ‘on going and unchanging state of affairs despite difficulties

Record

A larger than life tribute to Prince Philip, His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, recorded in 2002 and completed on the day of his

Henry

Henry is an interrogation of an image, an intimate examination of a stranger’s face and the filmmaker’s Grandfather. The film examines a portrait, which was

The Image that Spits, the Eye that Accumulates

A Mixed race body explores a Norfolk (UK) landscape whose future is uncertain due to coastal erosion. The physical erosion of the landscape, mirrors the

Here is the Imagination of the Black Radical

Afrofuturism is communicated via the Bahamian people through Junkanoo, a form of carnival in the Bahamas, originally celebrated by the enslaved who were given Christmas

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