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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

Something and Nothing

A filmmaker travels to Japan to show a film and during the trip, a correspondence with a Scottish man about a murder and a chance

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

Beit Iksa Boys

A fragmentary account of a journey through Jerusalem Stone quarries, Beit Iksa Boys (2013) indirectly explores the complex role of land, stone and resources in

Vaporetto

A chance stereo view from a Vaporetto (water bus) ride in Venice, 2019.

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

Flowers of the Sky

Flowers of the Sky (a medieval term for comets) draws on two panoramic photographs, found in a Los Angeles thrift shop, that depict a gathering

Look and Learn

Look and Learn excavates the visual vocabulary we use to operate and construct the daily world. Look and Learn explores the juxtaposition of two material

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

Jennifer

The film is portrait of Jennifer – a friend of the filmmaker’s who is an enclosed Carmelite nun in a monastery in Ronda, Spain, where

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

Diviner

‘The image of the diviner as an emblem of searching – a collision of the past, present, and future – operates as a central nexus

Shouting in Whispers

A collaged film work that takes open access online film clips to asks questions about personal responsibility, empathy and action. Moments in history knock up

A Mountain Inside A Cave

山洞裡有山 A ceremonial film of the projection of ‘Double Ghosts’ in Taiwan’s Chin Pao San cemetery on 19th August 2018. Inspired by tradition of temple

Inner Sage / Outer King

內聖 / 外王 Gathering interviews, readings, photographs and research material exploring Raúl Ruiz’s unfinished film The Comedy of Shadows. Inner Sage/Outer King is an open

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