THE NAMES HAVE CHANGED, INCLUDING MY OWN AND TRUTHS HAVE BEEN ALTERED
Onyeka Igwe | Great Britain 2019 | 26 Min. | English with engl. Subtitles
MONDAY, 12.05. | 7:15 pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
Part of the focus program sonic frictions
Stories exist in many places at once, and their various iterations move to different rhythms. Igwe weaves together a multiplicity of narrative strands, departing from stories remembered, retold and imagined of her paternal grandfather and her visit to her family’s hometown of Arondizuogu, Nigeria. A film projector, unspooling tape, a dusty film reel – Igwe interrogates the technologies and institutions that seek to capture and tell of singular, linear stories, by layering colonial footage, oral (hi)stories, Nollywood TV series, dance and folktale – that blend into polyphonic pulses.
Director: Onyeka Igwe
Camera: Morgan K. Spencer
Editing: Onyeka Igwe
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.
