No Dance, No Palaver – Film Screening – a Africa interest event taking place on 2018-11-01 19:00:00 in United Kingdom
No Dance, No Palaver Thurs 1 Nov at 7pm, Tramway, 25 Albert Drive No Dance, No Palaver is a series of three works produced by artist Onyeka Igwe and are the culmination of her research into the Aba Women’s War of 1929. All of the films use the first anti-colonial uprising in Nigeria as a entry point to experiment with colonial moving images relating to West Africa during the first half of the 20th century. Igwe utilises material from the colonial archive, employing it as a mode of resistance. This programme has been co-curated with LUX Scotland and Onyeka Igwe, and Onyeka has chosen two films to be shown alongside her trilogy. Films included in this programme are: Her Name in My Mouth Onyeka Igwe | UK | 6m The film revisions the Aba Women’s War, the first major anti-colonial uprisings in Nigeria, using embodiment, gesture and the archive. The film is structured around the repurposing of archival films from the British propaganda arm cut against a gestural evocation of the women’s testimonies. Sitting on a Man Onyeka Igwe | UK | 7m Traditionally, women in Igbo speaking parts of Nigeria came together to protest the behaviour of men by sitting on or making war on them by adorning themselves with palm fronds, dancing and singing protest songs outside the man in question’s home. This practice became infamous due to its prominence as a tactic in the Aba Women’s War, the 1929 all woman protest against colonial rule. Two contemporary dancers reimagine the practice, drawing on both archival research and their own experiences. Specialised Technique Onyeka Igwe | UK | 6m William Sellers and the Colonial Film Unit developed a framework for colonial cinema, this included slow edits, no camera tricks and minimal camera movement. Hundreds of films were created in accordance to this rule set. In an effort to recuperate black dance from this colonial project, Specialised Technique attempts to transform this material from studied spectacle to livingness. Onyeka Igwe has also chosen two films to be screened alongside this programme. These are: Nyansapo Rabz Lansquiot | UK 2018 | 11m Nyansapo traces family heritage through an interview with the filmmaker’s grandmother, utilising archive footage to visualise a history. Unearthing. In Conversation Belinda Kazeem-Kami?ski | Austria 2017 | 13m The seats in the theatre are still empty when the performer – the artist – enters the frame. She speaks about a colonial flashback. She is haunted by a series of historic photographs of or taken by the Austrian ethnographer Paul Schebesta in the 1930s, in the Belgian colony of the Congo. Filmmaker Onyeka Igwe will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A. These films have been programmed in partnership with LUX Scotland.
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