STORMING HEAVEN II: Close-Up Cinema, Screening Films by Michelle Williams Gamaker

Exploring the concept of ‘fictional activism’, Storming Heaven presents a series of films intent on subverting the camera’s legacy of colonial and sexual violence through the use of fiction and reconstruction. Focusing on the work of Jarman award-winning filmmaker Michelle Williams Gamaker, the programme will investigate the camera’s irrepressible desire for the illusory, the fetishistic, and the exotic, by pairing Gamaker’s works with those of Isaac Julien, Miranda Pennell, and a segment of Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, works that similarly see fiction as an agent of change.

The screenings will be followed by discussion between Kulraj Phullar and Michelle Williams Gamaker.

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