Themes: Histories

DOING TIME

Filmed in the old prison building in Porto now converted into a photographic gallery. Made in b/w with reference to a past time spent in

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A Radical Duet

1947 London was a hub of radical anti-colonial activity. International intellectuals, artists, and activists like Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Sylvia Wynter, C.L.R. James, Kwame Nkrumah, and George

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Wayfaring Stranger

Wayfaring Stranger charts the life of an itinerant character, embodied by seven performers, across seven days, representing seven decades. Running from the city, through post-industrial

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…These Blazeing Starrs!

Since comets have been recorded, they’ve augured disaster: catastrophe, messiahs, upheaval and end times. A short film about these meteoric ice-cored fireballs and their historic

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The Illinois Parables

An experimental documentary comprised of regional vignettes about faith, force, technology and exodus. Eleven parables relay histories of settlement, removal, technological breakthrough, violence, messianism and

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Golden Jubilee

What is liberation when so much has already been taken? Who has come for more? “Golden Jubilee”, the third film in a series of works

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At Home But Not at Home

In 1961, 14 years after India gained independence from Britain, the Indian Armed Forces defeated the last remaining Portuguese colonizers in the newly formed state

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And still, it remains

‘And still, it remains’ tells the story of Mertoutek, a village nestled in the Hoggar Mountains of Algeria’s Southern Sahara and home to the Escamaran

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Efforts of Nature

Combining low resolution footage, 16mm film and satellite imagery, Efforts of Nature considers the passage of time, processes of change and dissolution from two distant

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Hail Medea

“Who was Medea before she had children?” Inspired by the artist’s visit to historical cave pharmacy in Southern Georgia, and Roland Barthes’ idea of language

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Syncopated Green

Syncopated Green calls on the history of outdoor free parties to re-describe the English Countryside. The film listens to rave music, past and present, to

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1977

Grunwick’s strike action, Dollis Hill, London 1977. The Battle of Lewisham: Anti-National Front demonstration, New Cross, London 13th August 1977. Music: Horizontal Hold by This

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Home Invasion

A nightmarish essay film on the history of the doorbell, tracing its invention and constant reinventions through 19th century labour struggles, the nascent years of

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