Hope Strickland

Hope Strickland

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Hope Strickland is an artist filmmaker and visual anthropologist from Manchester, UK. Her practice is concerned with archival response and postcolonial ecologies and her work has been screened internationally at festivals such as Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, Open City Documentary Festival and the 59th New York Film Festival.

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Da Hillsook Wedeen 2019

Shetland is a place of wild, unforgiving landscapes, supernatural beliefs and a soundscape barely altered over time. This documentary explores storytelling and social imagination in Shetland.
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If I could name you myself (I would hold you forever) 2021

Wake and soil, skin and voice: Hope Strickland's film locates a legacy of slavery and colonial exploitation beneath the archive's official chronicle, in the deep historical memory of the body. "If I could name you myself (I would hold you forever)" sings an alternate history of resistance—familial, elemental, and sensuous.
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I’ll Be Back! 2022

Existing at the convergence of history and myth, the Haitian maroon leader François Mackandal returns to disrupt the colonial logic of the archive.