nude me/ uner the skin: A Resurrection of
Black Women's Visibility
Inspired by the architecture of Two Temple Place (an opulent neo-Gothic 1890s mansion on Victoria Embankment in London, owned by William Waldorf Astor), the film is in conversation with these surroundings. The film explores the nuances of the Global North’s empirical history
and its very direct effects on the Black British diaspora. It is also a conversation between body and
space. Between female form and that which has been sculpted by the male hand. Between skin and wood. In so many ways, the film relays the journey of Black woman against patriarchy, but moving through the building’s halls she defiantly claims the space as her own.
Single channel digital film ( colour and sound).
3:01 mins, 16:9 aspect ratio
Director: Freddie Leyden
Performed by Enam Gbewonyo
DOP~: Brendan Harvey