William Sellers and the Colonial Film Unit developed a framework for colonial cinema, which included slow edits, minimal camera movement, and no camera tricks. Hundreds of films were created in accordance with this ruleset. 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
Onyeka Igwe is an artist and researcher working between cinema and installation, born and based in London, UK. In her non-fiction video work, Onyeka uses dance, voice, archives, sound design, and text to create structural ‘figure-of-eights’, a format that exposes a multiplicity of narratives. Her works have been shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Dhaka Art Summit, Berlin Biennale, and various other Festivals across the world. 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.