Her Name in My Mouth: A New Film

Her Name in My Mouth | IFFR

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. (Onyeka Igwe)

Source:
https://iffr.com/en/2018/films/her-name-in-my-mouth

Upcoming Screenings:
Screening: Specialised Technique, International Festival of Film Rotterdam, 24-26 January 2019

Screening: No Dance, No Palaver, Tyneside Cinema, 31 January 2019.

Onyeka Igwe is an artist filmmaker, programmer and researcher. 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. The work explores the physical body and geographical place as sites of cultural and political meaning.

Onyeka’s video works have been screened at Artists’ Film Club: Black Radical Imagination, ICA, London, 2017; Seeing the City, Guildhall Art Gallery, London, 2012; and at film festivals internationally including the London Film Festival, 2015;
Rotterdam International, Netherlands, 2017; Edinburgh Artist Moving Image, 2016 and the Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Germany, 2016.

Recent solo projects include and a collaborative exhibition with Aliya Pabani, Corrections, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada, 2018.

Recent group projects include there’s something in the conversation that is more interesting than the finality of (a title), The Showroom, London, UK, 2018, World Cup!, articule, Montreal, Canada, 2018; Arguments, Cordova, Vienna, Austria, 2017; Multiplex, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada, 2016; and In the Shadow of the Rainbow, Sunday Drive Art Projects, Warkworth, Canada 2015.

Upcoming projects include a solo exhibition, No Dance, No Palaver, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland, 2018.