In her films 'Specialised Technique' (2018), 'the names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered' (2019), and 'a so-called archive' (2020), Onyeka Igwe manipulates found footage, sounds and other archival material – questioning the colonial gaze and reasserting the agency of the colonized. She uncovers the material and metaphoric remnants of the British colonial regime in all its ugliness, but also beautifully recollects a personal history while exploring a collective memory from multiple visual and narrative fronts. 

This screening is presented by Monangambee, a nomadic panafrican microcinema based in Lagos. Their screenings engage Black continental and diasporic filmmakers, as well as Third Cinema, and cinematic movements stemming from the Global South in general.

Onyeka Igwe is a London-based artist and researcher working between cinema and installation. Through her work, Onyeka is animated by the question —  how do we live together? — with particular interest in the ways the sensorial, spatiality,  and non-canonical ways of knowing can provide answers. She uses embodiment, voice, archives, narration and text to create structural ‘figure-of-eights’, a format that exposes a multiplicity of narratives. The work comprises untying strands and threads, anchored by a rhythmic editing style, as well as close attention to the dissonance, reflection and amplification that occurs between image and sound.