A SO-CALLED ARCHIVE
Onyeka Igwe | Great Britain 2020 | 19 Min. | English with engl. Subtitles
MONDAY, 12.05. | 7:15 pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
Part of the focus program sonic frictions
Lingering dust, sticky residues, echoing silence. Two abandoned sites of colonial archives – the Nigerian Film Unit in Lagos, part of the so-called Colonial Film Unit (1932–1955) and the former British Empire and Commonwealth Museum in Bristol (2002–2009) that used to collect photography, film and objects from across the former British empire. Their decomposing repositories and inner spaces mirror the haunting images and imprinted shadows trapped inside of them as well as the heaviness of their surrounding silence. Interrogating the disintegration of material and memory, Onyeka Igwe breathes sound, echoes and voices into the space, bestirring movement allowing re-imagined narratives to surface.
Director: Onyeka Igwe
Camera: Morgan K. Spencer, Rosie Taylor
Editing: Onyeka Igwe
Sound: Richy Carey
BIOGRAPHY
Onyeka Igwe is an artist and researcher working between cinema and installation, born and based in London, UK. Through her work, Onyeka is animated by the question—How do we live together?—with particular interest in how the sensorial, spatial, and noncanonical ways of knowing can provide answers to this question. Her works have been shown in the UK and internationally at film festivals and galleries. She was awarded the New Cinema Award at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2019, the 2020 Arts Foundation Futures Award for Experimental Short Film, and the 2021 Foundwork Artist Prize, and was nominated for the Jarman Award 2022.
