SPECIALISED TECHNIQUE
Onyeka Igwe | Great Britain 2018 | 7 Min. | English with engl. Subtitles
MONDAY, 12.05. | 7:15 pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
Part of the Short Film Program IN FOCUS: sonic frictions II
Named after the set of rules by William Sellers, head of the Colonial Film Unit, which produced propagandistic films aimed at audiences in Britain’s African colonies, Specialised Technique challenges the visual regimes and colonial ideology behind their creation by interrupting and disordering archival footage. Refusing and refuting the visual codes imposed by colonial cinema falsely claiming to assert standardization and neutrality, Igwe stains, draws against, and enters in critical dialog with archival imagery. Temporal interventions such as pausing, slowing down and looping disrupt linear logics and allow for ghostly figures trapped within the archive to emerge. Opening up a multiplicity of temporalities, dance is introduced as a form of knowledge, gesture of resistance, rebellious counter-movement.
Regie: Onyeka Igwe
Kamera: Onyeka Igwe
Schnitt: Onyeka Igwe
Ton/Musik: Kiera Coward-Deyell
Produktion: Pinky Ghundale – FLAMIN Productions
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.
