Person
Onyeka Igwe
Directing
Biography
Onyeka Igwe is an artist filmmaker, programmer and researcher. She lives and works in London. 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. Her video works have shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, The Showroom, London, articule, Montreal and Trinity Square Video, Toronto as well as at the London, Edinburgh Artist Moving Image, Rotterdam International and Hamburg film festivals.
Known for
Collective Hum
Editor
A Radical Duet
Director
Specialised Technique
Director
Her Name in My Mouth
Director
The Names Have Changed, Including My Own and Truths Have Been Altered
Director
Ungentle
Director
No Archive Can Restore You
Director
Penkelemes
Director
Notes on dancing with the archive
Director
We Need New Names
Director
Filmography
- 2025PenkelemesDirector
- 2023A Radical DuetDirector
- 2023Notes on dancing with the archiveDirector
- 2023Sylvie’s MonologueDirector
- 2022UngentleDirector
- 2022The Miracle on George GreenDirector
- 20218 yams, 8 small yams, 8 eggs, a cow and a cockerelDirector
- 2020Another Step ForwardDirector
- 2020A So-Called ArchiveDirector
- 2020No Archive Can Restore YouDirector
- 2020Collective HumEditor
- 2019The Names Have Changed, Including My Own and Truths Have Been AlteredDirector
- 2018Specialised TechniqueDirector
- 2018Her Name in My MouthDirector
- 2018Sitting on a ManDirector
- 2015We Need New NamesDirector
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