Parable of the Return
Wilson left home in Medellin (Colombia) on his way to Bogota but never arrived at his destination. Thirty years later, after peace agreements with the FARC have drastically altered his home country, he returns from exile in London to meet his family who believed him dead. Wilson’s plane journey shapes a parable inspired by a poem by (Columbian writer) Porfirio Barba Jacob.
Junkanoo Talk
Who has the authority to speak about a given culture? Junkanoo Talk investigates the language of celebration through carnival.
Storr is interested in carnival as subversive act, an outlet for parody or satire and abstraction employed in the service of cultural identity, obscuring or revealing an author. The work explores a culturally ambiguous standpoint and seeks to avoid a fetishization of the so-called ‘other’. Through colour and gesture Storr seeks a near forensic way of looking, yet the viewer is systematically denied the full picture.
As part of the Bahamian diaspora, Storr has experienced the carnival only through mediated imagery, through first hand accounts, the internet and television. Colour is coded in a way that suggests an internal logic, the layering on of a costume comparative to the layering on of a language. At the start of the film James Baldwin is quoted, who speaks in this instance of the complexities of being an African American in France, whilst the costume shown employs a technique of cutting crepe paper specific to Junkanoo, a carnival of the Bahamas.
La Bouche
A man learns that his daughter has been brutally murdered by her husband. Time stands still as he oscillates between the need for solace and his urge for revenge.
A musical featuring Guinean percussion master, Mohamed Bangoura ‘Red Devil’, loosely based on his own story.