Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2018 • Nigeria, United Kingdom
Transforming studied spectacle into kinetic livingness, artist Onyeka Igwe reclaims and reanimates images of Black dance as portrayed in British colonial-era propaganda films.
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the names have changed, including my ...
Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2019 • Nigeria, United Kingdom
THE NAMES HAVE CHANGED . . . tells the story of artist Onyeka Igwe’s grandfather, the story of the “land,” and the story of an encounter with Nigeria in four different ways: a folktale of two brothers rendered in the broad strokes of colon...
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a so-called archive
Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2020 • Nigeria, United Kingdom
Blending footage shot in two separate colonial archive buildings—one in Lagos, Nigeria, the other in Bristol, England—this double portrait considers the “sonic shadows” that colonial images continue to generate even after the disintegratio...
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The Miracle on George Green
Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2022 • United Kingdom
THE MIRACLE ON GEORGE GREEN tells a collective social history of the UK tradition of the commons—land collectively owned and used to gather, play, and debate. The film centers on the George Green treehouse in East London, where a beloved chestnut t...
