BRIXTON LIFT (digitised 8mm film an SD Video, 5min)    [>>>preview here]
~ Brixton Lift is driven by an interest in the social archive, everyday historical events and showcasing examples of celebration and commune within Black British culture. The work creates visual compositions that combine sound and painterly imagery, informed by structuralist approaches to filmmaking using a poetic visual language. The camera explores various social and physical spaces, focusing on Atlantic Road in Brixton, documenting the now shut-down Brixton Splash music festival; an annual street party, held from 2006 to 2015 in celebration of Jamaican Independence Day and Brixton’s Afro-Caribbean community and culture. The film highlights the precarity of gathering and corporeal behaviours, while considering the ecology of the street, urban landscapes and the marginalisation of the built environment, exploring the material and illustrative potential of 16mm film and filmmaking when used as a social document.