Short Films by Onyeka Igwe

Playful, absorbing, and deeply inquisitive, the films of Onyeka Igwe turn to the archives to challenge official narratives and excavate hidden histories. Whether tracing fragments of her own family history in THE NAMES HAVE CHANGED, INCLUDING MY OWN AND TRUTHS HAVE BEEN ALTERED, reimagining anticolonial activism in 1940s London in A RADICAL DUET, or conjuring the absent images of Britain’s colonial record in A SO-CALLED ARCHIVE, Igwe’s work shifts inventively between documentary, narrative, and performance to bring the nearly forgotten past into dynamic dialogue with the present.