Screening
The Voices Film Series | Queer Identity | Simisolaoluwa Akande
18 Oct 2022
Regular hours
- Tue, 18 Oct
- 19:00 – 21:00
Cost of entry
General Admission £5 ( + processing fee)
We have a limited number of free tickets available for unwaged / low-income people aged 16 - 30 who identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ community
Address
- 183-185 Bermondsey Street
- (adjacent to White Cube Bermondsey)
- London
England - SE1 3UW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- C10 Victoria to Canada Water (Stop F Bermondsey Street)
- London Bridge - Borough
Screening and Q&A event focusing on the work of Simisolaoluwa Akande. Part of the Voices Film Programme Spotlighting Queer film-makers
About
This October the Voices Film Series focuses on Queer Identity. Come along to Bermondsey Project Space for the second screening in a series of events spotlighting LGBTQIA+ filmmakers.
This screening event presents the work of Simisolaoluwa Akande
From Nigeria to England, Simisolaoluwa Akande’s fascination with the art of storytelling has crossed continents before expressing itself through film. Now a multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker, her films embrace a deeply collaborative approach to storytelling that provides black stories space to be told and retold.
The screening will include two of Simisolaluwa's award-winning films plus a preview of her upcoming piece The Archive: Queer Nigerian Project - an experimental documentary that uses a patchwork of archive video, audio, and photography to paint an intimate portrait of the contemporary lives of queer Nigerians living in London.
The Screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the artist.
The Voices Film Programme is supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery. www.filmlondon.org.uk/filmhub
Featured Films:
Ojumo Ti MO, DUDU (black)
Doors 7pm
Films start 7.30pm
Screening 7.30 - 8.pm
Q&A / time for conversation and drinks 8. - 9pm
Title: Ojumo Ti MO
Duration: 00:16:01
Synopsis: Three years after their father passed, a documentary acts as the perfect stage for a family of four women to talk through their experiences of their loss. Somewhere between distance and time, phone calls provided each person the space to tell their own stories
Title: DUDU (black)
Duration: 00:05:57
Synopsis: "DUDU" translates to "BLACK" in Yoruba. Through spoken word, the film explores the effects of colourism on ones self-identity.
Title: The Archive: Queer Nigerian Project
Synopsis: is an experimental documentary that uses a patchwork of archive video, audio, and photography to paint an intimate portrait of the contemporary lives of queer Nigerians living in London. 20 queer Nigerians living in the UK document their lives through audio diaries. Participants recount the highs and lows of their journey towards ‘becoming’; telling stories about how universal ideas of family, love, and finding oneself, are complicated within the multiple intersections of blackness, African-ness, and queerness. Although each story is unique, the documentary intricately weaves them together to construct an epic narrative of multiple perspectives.
