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Onyeka Igwe is an artist filmmaker, programmer and researcher.
She lives and works in London.
In her non-fiction video work Onyeka uses dance, voice, archive and text to expose a multiplicity of narratives. The work explores the physical body and geographical place as sites of cultural and political meaning.
Her video works have shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, The Showroom, London, articule, Montreal and Trinity Square Video, Toronto as well as at the London, Edinburgh Artist Moving Image, Rotterdam International and Hamburg film festivals.
Most Popular Onyeka Igwe Trailers
Total trailers found: 16
16 September 2022
A fictionalised essay read by Ben Wishaw exploring the complicated relationship between British espionage and male homosexuality.
03 May 2020
Onyeka Igwe’s No Archive Can Restore You surveys the rustic, decaying interiors of the former Nigerian Film Unit building in Lago, viscerally evoking a history full of contingency – including colonial propaganda, institutional neglect, architectural rot – and reimagining the lost sounds that abandoned film cans may contain.
09 December 2020
With a forensic lens, Onyeka Igwe's A So-Called Archive interrogate the decomposing repositories of Empire.
31 December 2020
Another Step Forward. 2020. Great Britain. Directed by Onyeka Igwe. 6 min.
17 February 2020
A short film exploring the polyphony of collectivity in the desires, motivations and stories that foreground the histories and present(s) of Black British sound.
01 January 2018
Part two of Igwe's trilogy on the 1929 Aba Women's War.
04 September 2019
A film telling the same story in four different ways - using British colonial moving images to tell a folk story of two brothers, a VHS Nollywood TV series of the first published Igbo novel, a passed down story of a the family patriarch and the diary entries of the artist's first solo trip to her family's hometown.
05 July 2018
William Sellers and the Colonial Film Unit developed a framework for colonial cinema, this included slow edits, no camera tricks and minimal camera movement.
08 October 2023
Imagining a revolutionary play authored by two female activists in the anti-colonial movement in post-war London.
05 January 2015
A work examining contemporary Nigerian diasporic female identity through the contradictions inherent to an ethnographic reading of the funeral of the filmmakers’ family matriarch.
09 August 2021
8 yams, 8 small yams, 8 eggs, a cow and a cockerel. 2021. Great Britain. Directed by Onyeka Igwe. 4 min.
01 December 2025
The film explores the University of Ibadan, the oldest degree-awarding institution in Nigeria. Moving through the university’s tropical modernist architecture, the film traces the building’s personal and political histories, from its colonial roots through to national independence, civil war and towards the present day.
26 January 2018
The film revisions the Aba Women’s War, the first major anti-colonial uprisings in Nigeria, using embodiment, gesture and the archive.
