Hope Strickland

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

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.

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.

Home Soon Come is part of an ongoing project with the local Caribbean community in South Manchester. The film plays between archival footage of the Caribbean islands, domestic spaces in Manchester and scenes shot in a day centre for the Caribbean elderly. It explores diasporic movements, memory-placing through domestic objects and what it means to find ourselves at home in the people around us.