Mixed bill of film works featuring Alexandrina Hemsley, Susanna Dye & Manon Ouimet, Tobi Adebajo and Janine Harrington

Watch a selection of short films that each explore sensation through the lenses of different embodied experiences.

Accessibility: All films have captions available.

Please note: The films will be available to watch online until Thu 4 Mar.

Total duration: 80 mins

Programme:

Maelstrom Under Glass - Yewande 103,  Alexandrina Hemsley ​| Approx. 12 mins

...life spills slowly 
across cell edges 
weeping open… 

Maelstrom Under Glass, calls upon several strands of intimacy as pathways to trauma-healing to offer up dynamic spaces of repair. Alexandrina’s vivid, multidisciplinary layers of movement, bio-mythographic texts and collage speak to retrieving oneself from sites of harm. These layerings evoke a reclaiming of interior texture; evoking re-embodiment after prolonged dissociation, inner storms, intersectional subjectivity as sites of marbling, and the complicated shine of a body meeting itself once more.  

Accessibility: There is a subtitled and BSL interpreted version of this film available as well as a captioned version.

STIMMING - Susanna Dye & Manon Ouimet ​| Approx. 3-5 mins per film (7 films)

This captivating series of films was created to scope out Susanna’s embodied experience of neurodivergence, exploring how it can feel to live in a world that is too loud, too bright, too fast and too tight, and how the neurodivergent body moves in order to regulate this sensory and emotional experience. The project gets its name from stimming movements, the rhythmic and repetitive movements that people do to regulate the sensory and emotional input from the environment. Susanna explores stimming as sensory conversations, and how the repetitive nature of these movement loops can produce altered emotional and mental states.  

susannadye.com 

Transitions I : Movement in Spirit - Tobi Adebajo  ​| Approx. 10 mins

Leaving your presumptions and assumptions of bodies at the door,  witness embodiments in textures and sound that pay homage to the form/less vibrations of life, pain and movements in flux.

Tobi is an Anti-Disciplinary artist who works in various creative and communal spheres with a primary focus on movement, sound, visual and written works. Their practice draws from all the senses and relies upon intentional collaboration to create pieces that open up conversations around access, love, healing and liberation.

Accessibility: There is a subtitled and BSL interpreted version of this film available as well as a captioned version.

How to watch

The films will be available to watch online Fri 19 Feb - Thu 4 Mar. ​When you have booked you will be sent an E-Ticket to your registered email address (please check your spam folder), which will contain the necessary webpage link and password to enable you to access all the films as many times as you like until Thu 4 Mar.

Please note: If you do not receive an E-Ticket please contact boxoffice@theplace.org.uk