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We Need New Names

We Need New Names is an essay video work examining contemporary Nigerian diasporic female identity through the contradictions inherent to an ethnographic reading of the

Sitting on a Man

Traditionally, women in Igbo speaking parts of Nigeria, came together to protest the behaviour of men by sitting on or making war on them by

Eustatic Drift

“once we were plankton slouched in the oceanbut now we are code,surfaced and held in the laminae of rock like open scores ”This narrative voice

x comme x

x comme x is a text-based film which imagines cross-temporalities that extend from the contemporaneous, in which we hear incarnate words speak to the deep

Correspondência um

Correspondência um. is a collaboration with dance artist Susanne Mayer, taking its title from a year long correspondence and studio practice. The choreography for this

The Zombie Diaries

The Zombie Diaries is loosely framed as the testimony of a new mother becoming a zombie. Filmed over two years we see her child age,

A woman with a long curly hair facing a life-sized portrait of a woman. Their clothes are almost identical.

Claudette’s Star

Acting as part ode and through a series of interpretations, the film depicts young artists considering with sheer wonder who is given a voice.

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

Two

Two uses a female erotic gaze to look for places where love might be found in contemporary life and to explore what might constitute supportive,

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

Home

A short film depicting a woman putting her children to sleep, cleaning dishes, then dancing with a ghost. Shot on Super 16mm film, Home uses

Looking For Gary

Set on Essex Road among an established local community in Islington London, this film looks at the complex relationship between people and place. Growing up

The Cure of Folly

English; speech from memory; figures of ‘osmotic’ learning and ‘learning by wrote’ are placed in relation to one another, in a response to Hieronymous Bosch’s painting

Lourdes

Lourdes is a new work developed from a residency in Tepito, Mexico, centring upon a discussion with a market trader called Lourdes. Interviewed about her

Themes: Feminism