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The Miracle on George Green

A film borne of walking through Hackney Marshes repeatedly in 2020 imagining my childhood – the things I experienced and those I wished I had,

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

i eye aye

A post-mortem archaeology of the creative path followed by a non-existent artist into the cosmological eternal present.(A tissue of truthful lies documented by the Archive

For Dan

A companion piece to Mum’s Cards, For Dan explores an intense period of correspondence between the artist’s late father and his closest friend, radical university

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

Alternative Economies

Alternative Economies was made in conversation with herbalist Rasheeqa Ahmad and financial services regulator Rachel Bardiger. The film discusses the imperialist exploits of the Disney

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

Virtual Walls/Real Walls

Part of a yearlong project Virtual Walls /Real Walls (2017/2018) which was started in Venice with a projected video image and a live performance with

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

Beyond The Substrata

Throughout 2019 artist Larry Achiampong developed new work in response to his residency with Waltham Forest Council. Working within an abandoned supermarket in Leyton, the

Covid Messages

‘Covid Messages’ is a video in six parts, based around broadcasts of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s COVID-19 press conferences. The work focusses on the British

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

Two Meetings and a Funeral

“The Third World was not a place, but a project.” (Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations, 2007). This was to be a utopian alliance where the

Circumstantial Pleasures

Klahr, whom critic J. Hoberman called “the reigning proponent of cut and paste” for his acclaimed collage animations, is best known for his seductive 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

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