Grace Ndiritu

Movies

Black Beauty: For a Shamanic Cinema
Director
African fashion model Alexandra Cartier meets Jorge Luis Borges in a visionary hallucination. What does the famous Argentine modernist writer have to say about our contemporary ecological and pandemic problems?
Becoming Plant
Director
Becoming Plant follows six dancers who participate in a therapeutic group experiment with psychedelics, while temporarily ‘living’ together on the demilitarised industrial site. While they are subjected to the plant’s consciousness and to each other’s presence, they perform a choreography, aligning their naked bodies with each other and with the architectural ruins. The film serves as a catalyst to discuss wider social and relational issues such as science, spirituality, psychiatry, healing, healthcare and the problems of collective depression and trauma resulting from living in the age of Late Capitalism. Becoming Plant features a specially composed soundtrack by London based electronic musician and visual artist Gaika.
Natural Disasters No. 2 Tremor
Director
In this work nature is re-imagined through a game of absence and presence. Inner earthquakes and minor tremors, mirror 'real' disasters on a minute scale.
Hippie
Director
Inspired by a true life event, when the director was living in a monastery and Russell Brand came to visit. In Hippie we see a movie star move to a remote spiritual community while being followed by a documentary film crew. Causing chaos he destroys the life of those who live there through his obsessions’ with sex, drugs, murder and being famous. There is no escape for anyone, including the indigneous community who claim it as their ancestral land and want to stop it being sold off to a multinational, which they suspect Brand works for.