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Archive/Album and other Images

Archive / Album and Other Images takes a personal journey through a set of family slides, asking questions of how images can speak and how

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

Lens Diary

Notes on relational optics.(or… what lens did I use and what it felt like to use it, how it affected my physical proximity to people

Receiver

A crossed telephone line propels Receiver into a suite of heated and intimate conversations in which we encounter scenes of protest at a university for

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

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

PHX [X is for Xylonite]

In ‘PHX [X is for Xylonite]’, the first semi-synthetic plastics are considered through their relationship to the chemical and industrial development of photography and film.

Collective Hum

A short film exploring the polyphony of collectivity in the desires, motivations and stories that foreground the histories and present(s) of Black British sound. Collective

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

Laki Haze

Laki Haze (2020) Following the eruption of the Lakakigar volcano, Iceland in 1783, a sulphurous haze shrouded vaste swathes of the northern hemisphere, causing widespread

Cloudberries

‘Cloudberries’ was shot in Arctic Russia, on the Kola Penisula along the so-called Northern Sea Route during the hottest summer on record. It was filmed

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

Cladach

The Wester Ross region of North West Scotland provides grounds to film and explore indigenous habitats and species, as well as human interactions with the

What Weakens The Flesh Is The Flesh Itself

Chicago-based Steve Reinke and Berlin-based James Richards may be artists separated by twenty years of age and the Atlantic Ocean, but they share a fascination

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