Events

Second Sight: New Commissions at GSFF20

17 — 18 August 2020
21:00

GSFF Online

Morgan Quaintance, South, 2019. Courtesy of the artist

In association with LUX, the Independent Cinema Office (ICO) presents four new moving image commissions from artists Ayo Akingbade, B.O.S.S. Collective, Morgan Quaintance and Rehana Zaman. These films are part of the ICO’s 2020 national film tour Second Sight which explores the legacy, methods, aesthetic strategies and histories of the UK Black Film Workshop Movement which developed throughout the 1980s.

Introduced by Onyeka Igwe (B.O.S.S. Collective) and Ayo Akingbade, in conversation with Benjamin Cook (LUX).

Second Sight: New Commissions streams live at 21.00 on Monday 17 August, then is available to view on demand for 24 hours only.

Ayo Akingbade

(b. 1994, London. Lives and works in London, England.)

Akingbade works predominantly with moving image, addressing notions of power, urbanism and stance. Interested in the fluid boundaries between the self and the other, she gathers local and cultural experiences in intimate and playful interpretations.

http://​ayoakingbade​.com/

B.O.S.S. Collective 

Black Obsidian Sound System was established in the summer of 2018 with the intention of bringing together a community of queer, trans and non binary people of colour involved in art, sound and radical activism. Following in the legacies of sound system culture B.O.S.S. wanted to learn, build and sustain a resource for collective struggles.

https://​www​.facebook​.com/​b​l​a​c​k​o​b​s​i​d​i​a​n​s​o​u​n​d​s​y​stem/

Morgan Quaintance

Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist, writer and curator. His moving-image work has been shown recently at LIMA, Amsterdam, Cubitt Gallery, London; Jerwood Space, London; the 14th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, London Film Festival 2018, and November Film Festival.

https://​morganquaintance​.com/

Rehana Zaman

(b 1982, Heckmondwike UK, based in London)

Rehana Zaman works with moving image and performance. Her work considers the interplay of multiple social dynamics that constitute subjects along particular socio-political formations. These narrative based pieces, often deadpan and neurotic, are frequently generated through conversation and collaboration with others.

Onyeka Igwe

Igwe is an artist and researcher working between cinema and installation. She is born and based in London, UK. In her non-fiction video work, Onyeka uses dance, voice, archive and text to expose a multiplicity of narratives. Her works have shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, LUX, Berlin Biennale, and the London, Rotterdam International, Essay and Smithsonian African American film festivals. She has exhibited at articule, Montreal, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Jerwood Space, London and The Showroom, London. She was awarded the New Cinema Award at Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2019 and the 2020 Arts Foundation Fellowship Award for Experimental Film.

Second Sight

In association with LUX, the ICO’s 2020 national film tour Second Sight explores the legacy, methods, aesthetic strategies and histories of the UK’s Black Film Workshop Movement.

The Black Film Workshop Movement developed throughout the 1980s, a pivotal decade in UK culture and society. Against a backdrop of divisive national politics and civil unrest, a series of radical filmmaking collectives sprung up.

Their films explored the Black community’s relationship to Britain’s colonial past; whilst also looking to the Civil Rights movement in America, Black feminism, Pan-Africanism, the struggle of apartheid, and the emergent fields of postcolonial and cultural studies.

Second Sight incorporates key archive films from the period as well as new commissions from contemporary film artists, created in response to the Workshop context.