A Radical Duet

In post-war London something was shifting. In the beating heart of the British Empire, a movement of resistance was being nurtured, and international intellectuals, artists, and activists like Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Sylvia Wynter, C.L.R James, Kwame Nkrumah and George Padmore were all in London agitating for the national independence of their respective countries. In this new and ambitious work by BFMAF New Cinema Award winner Onyeka Igwe, experimental approaches channel some of this vibrant revolutionary fervour, inspired by Wynter’s ideas of theatrical adaptation. (Myriam Mouflih)

Onyeka Igwe is a London born & based moving image artist and researcher. Her work is aimed at the question: how do we live together? – pulling apart the nuances of mutuality and co-existence in our deeply individualized world. Onyeka’s practice figures sensorial, spatial and counter-hegemonic ways of knowing as central to that task. She is interested in the prosaic and everyday aspects of black livingness. Her work has screened at Modern Mondays, MoMA, Artists’ Film Club: Black Radical Imagination, ICA, London; Dhaka Art Summit 2020, and at film festivals internationally including the London Film Festival; Open City Documentary Film Festival, Rotterdam International; Images Festival, and the Smithsonian African American film festival.

A Radical Duet (2023), The Miracle on George Green (2022), a so-called archive (2020), No Archive Can Restore You (2020), the names have changed… (2019), No Dance, No Palaver (2017-18), Corrections (2018), Sung (2018), We Need New Names (2015)