Claudette's Star
Acting as part ode and through a series of interpretations, the film depicts young artists astonished about who is given a voice.… >>>
- Duration: 6 Min.
- Director: Ayo Akingbade
Questioning, breaking canons, (im)possibilities of reparations and transcendence of violent, colonial, white oppression and dominance. Radical Imaginations, radical revelations, infinite radicalities. Unmasking, breaking a hostile environment and uttering ever there new narratives and realms, whilst deconstructing the notion of linearity in his_stories and fighting the ongoing effort of making oppression, violence as well as resilient realities invisible.
Acting as part ode and through a series of interpretations, the film depicts young artists astonished about who is given a voice.… >>>
Taking two anti-racist and anti-authoritarian liberation movements in South London and Chicago’s South Side as a point of departure, SOUTH presents an expressionistic investigation of the power of individual and collective voice. Interlinked with Morgan Quaintance’s own biography (time spent living in both London and Chicago), the film also considers questions of mortality and the will to transcend a world trypified by concrete relations.… >>>
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 Édouard Glissant, the black feminist poetics of the Brazilian philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva, and the racial formation of geology theorized by British geographer Kathryn Yusoff amongst others in order to envision a black feminist cosmos animated by the principles of mathematical nihilism. INFINITY MINUS INFINITY confronts the compounded timelines of the afterlife of slavery enacted by British imperial capitalism with the forces and the fictions of 21st Century black feminist digital cosmology. It brings together dance, performance, music, recital, and digital animation to compose a transhistorical zone in which the unpayable debts of racial capitalism cannot be separated from the ongoing crimes of climate catastrophe. INFINITY MINUS INFINITY enacts the past distress, present duress and future dread of the British Capitalocene through the assembly of a chorus of transtemporal deities whose utterances, expressions, gestures, and movements allude to the accumulated times and spaces of the United Kingdom's environmental hostility.… >>>