Maybelle Peters is a London based artist and filmmaker working in film and CGI. Her practice focuses on storytelling using documentary, historical events, literature, and oral narratives. She gained her bachelor’s degree in Animation at Farnham where she made her first commissioned film for BBC2. Her Channel 4 commissioned film, Mama Lou, has been shown extensively at animation festivals. She is the recipient of the inaugural Womxn of Colour art award. Maybelle’s practice explores allegorical tales and myth-making, gleaning stories from objects, personal rituals, and an archive of ephemera, gestures and sounds. Photo by Sanne Gault.
We Deh Here traces the relationship between Scotland and Guyana through photography, sewing, genealogical research, and matrilineal lines. Combining stills of historical sites in Edinburgh and the Scottish Highlands with audio conversations between the artist and her mother, the film investigates and speculates on their interconnection as an expression of British and Scottish colonialism.
We are pleased that the screening of We Deh Here will be its world cinema premiere, presented in association with Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival.
We Deh Here will screen as part of the Shorts Block: Deposited in This Land of Strangers
