Employing a variety of cinematic forms and strategies, the five films in this programme engender lingering, often poetic diasporic dialogues—between here and there, then and now.
A Q&A with filmmakers whose work appears in this program will follow the screening.
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By Luis Arias | 16 mins | 2024 | Senegal, Brazil, USA
“Bisagras is a film exploring the enduring here and elsewhere of black consciousness. Finding a connection through the film’s emulsion and my skin, Bisagras holds my experience as a person of Afro-Caribbean descent during a visit to the House of Slaves in Gorée Island, Senegal and the port of Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. In these places I dare to imagine my ancestors’ history of the journey of African slaves to America and draw a line that goes through me.” – Luis Arnías
By Maybelle Peters | 7 mins | 2025
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.
By Samuel Suffren | 15 mins | 2025 | Haiti
Marianne and Pétion live in Haiti and wait impatiently for a call from their son in the USA. As silence sets in, their fears and worries grow, revealing the fractures in their own lives. The promise of the American dream now seems to elude them, as the line between hope and reality becomes increasingly blurred.
By Darryl Daley | 8 mins | 2023 | UK
Youlogy / No Ghosts explores cyclical motifs of arrival and departure through the artist’s grandmother’s migration to the United Kingdom and her posthumous return to Jamaica, creating a transcendental frame where memory and time merge. In this speculative space, the film navigates beyond the confines of mortality, reimagining a future where inherited stories resist linearity.
A RIVER HOLDS A PERFECT MEMORY
By Hope Strickland | 17 mins | 2024 | Jamaica, UK
“The original premise of a river holds a perfect memory was based on a series of labor protests in January 2016, St Elizabeth, Jamaica that highlighted the complex, racio-colonial capitalist logics that continue to shape the use of Black River. Rivers fascinate me for myriad reasons: they hold within them the poetics of collapsed time and diasporic memory, alongside complex flows of resource and labor extraction. Spending time researching reservoirs and industry in the North of England and rivers with my extended family in Jamaica, the more these worlds seemed to swirl and eddy together.” – Hope Strickland
