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 tree sparked a letter-writing campaign to save it from destruction. From this story, artist Onyeka Igwe expands outward through archival materials from other collective sites, connecting the Diggers of the seventeenth century, Greenham Common antiwar protests, squatting communities, outdoor raves, and other histories of communal resistance and gathering.
Up Next in Short Films by Onyeka Igwe
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A Radical Duet
Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2023 • United Kingdom
Starring Renee Bailey, Tomi Ogunjobi, Emmanuel KojoWhat happened in 1940s London when two women of different generations, both fighting against colonialism, came together to put their fervor and imagination into writing a revolutionary play?
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Penkelemes
Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2025 • Nigeria, United Kingdom
Created in 1948 to produce compliant colonial subjects, the University of Ibadan stands as an example of the university as a colonial project. Following Nigerian independence, it briefly flourished as a center of Nigerian thought and cultu...
