WE NEED NEW NAMES
Onyeka Igwe | Great Britain 2015 | 14 Min. | English with engl. Subtitles
MONDAY, 12.05. | 7:15 pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
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Performing against the grain. A reworking of personal material of the filmmaker’s grandmother’s funeral. A gathering, collective movements of mourning and grief. Layering archive and speculative fiction, Onyeka Igwe explores inherent conflicts of documenting and naming, deconstructing violent ethnographic taxonomies. Diasporic matrilineal genealogies are activated through performance, ritual and repetition of embodied memory. Transgressing the dichotomies of past and present We need new Names offers openings into transitory realms of presence and passing.
Director: Onyeka Igwe
Camera: Onyeka Igwe
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.
