Sois de Traca
Sois de Traca is the filmmakers collective formed by María Álvarez and Elisa Morais. Influenced by surrealism, absurdism and rhythmic structures, their video art is at the core a method of storytelling. The Art of Change was created for The Barbican in collaboration with The Smalls. The animated piece shows an alternative reality scenario tackling the frightening themes of animal extinction, pollution, and climate change. The big question being asked here is: ‘What if each of us were instantly accountable for our actions when they affect climate change?’.
You can find more work by Sois de Traca on their website and on their Instagram.
Beverley Bennett
UK-based Artist-filmmaker Beverley Bennett crafts tapestries of voices through her collaborative project and film Simon Says/Dadda. The 3-channel installation explores the dynamic of father/daughter relationships among Black and Asian women and non-binary individuals, addressing the profound impact of structural inequalities in our wider society. Developed through a series of gatherings across England, this film aims to amplify untold and underrepresented stories that are currently absent from the visual art sphere.
You can find more of Beverley’s work on her website and Instagram.
Lucy Werrett
Lucy Werrett is an award-winning director specialising in documentaries, music promos, fashion and branded content. Through her video art, she uses her own immersive, visual dialogue to leave a lasting imprint on the viewer. She relishes in culture, music and artistic processes, and is drawn to larger-than-life eccentric characters and timeless stories that are at risk of being lost. HOMEBOUND is an experimental documentary which explores the collective mental shifts that occurred in the first UK lockdown. Each voice explains how they have been changed and forced to confront demons.
You can find more of Lucy’s work on her website and Instagram.
Ndayé Kouagou
Parisian artist and performer Ndayé Kouagou disrupts passive art consumption by actively engaging his audience and posing thought-provoking questions where he is the author. Ndayé challenges the idea that art can inherently inspire profound thought or change, leaving viewers with a multitude of existential questions and few definitive answers. This is further shown in Kouagou’s description of his own work as “quite interesting, but not that interesting or maybe not interesting at all”.
You can find more of Ndayé’s work on his website and Instagram.
Kashif Boothe
Kashif Boothe is an Independent filmmaker and produces short films and web series under his production company Kashif Boothe Entertainment. Working in a variety of different avenues, Kashif’s work shows versatility and ingenuity. Black Man Stand, for example, is an award winning short film. A poetic piece which explores the perception of Black Men, the film creates a point for reflection and questioning about why we think the way we do.
You can find more of Kashif’s work on his website and Instagram.
Marianna Simnett
Berlin-based artist and musician Marianna Simnett uses vivid and visceral means to explore the body as a site of transformation. In psychologically charged works that challenge both herself and the viewer, Simnett imagines radical new worlds filled with untamed thoughts, strange tales and desires. In her film Blue Moon, a glitching female figure trapped within a technicolour forest undergoes constant metamorphosis, as the imagery is entirely generated by a custom AI model trained on the artist’s own videos.
You can find more of Marianna’s work on her website and Instagram.
Gohar Dashti
Gohar Dashti is a photographer and video artist whose work references history and contemporary culture, as well as the convergence of anthropological and sociological perspectives. Her work is highly poetic, exploring the innate kinship between the natural world and human migrations. The series Slow Decay, which is comprised of photography and video, captures cruel moments of misery and fatigue without alluding to specific events in time or place. The video itself shows blood slowly pouring through gauze until the whole screen is covered. It mirrors a body slowly disintegrating, suffering silently.
You can find more of Gohar’s work on her website and Instagram.
Charlie Prodger
Glasgow-based artist Charlie Prodger employs various mediums, including moving image, printed image, sculpture, and writing, to delve into themes of queer identity, landscape, language, technology, and time. In her latest film SaF05, Prodger explores the physicality of cameras as sculptural devices, whilst her autobiographical voiceover weaves a personal narrative that spans from her adolescence to the present, reflecting on intimacy, sexuality, and kinship within broader political contexts.
You can find more of Charlie’s work on Hollybush Gardens’ website and Charlie’s Instagram.
Allie Joy
Allie Joy is a digital artist based in the UK and is creating everywhere. Her video art and digital creations make up part of the app Syntropy. Allie believes that conscious breathwork is an essential part of healthcare, digital art and music, and a combination of these mediums can transform your daily practice into something experiential and engaging. Using breathwork and relaxation meditations, we can find ways to boost health and wellbeing.
You can find more of Allie’s work on her website and Instagram.
Elisa Giardina Papa
Based between New York and Sicily, Elisa Giardina Papa explores overlooked knowledge and desires in her art, often found in discarded AI datasets, censored cinema archives, and fabricated historical accounts. Through large-scale video installations and experimental films, she sheds light on the parts of our lives that defy easy categorization. Her three channel video installation ‘Cleaning Emotional Data’ illustrates precarious labour of microworkers cleaning data to train emotion-recognition algorithms in AI economies.
You can find more of Elisa’s work on her website and Instagram.
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Authors
Bethan Jayne Goddard
