UNDER THE SKIN OF a guild: wake of lost souls
This film reckons with the history of London Guildhall and the Zong slave ship case, which was tried in its Great Hall. The film invokes the ancestral spirits of the enslaved people who were thrown overboard. The physicality of two Black female descendants of these victims claiming space within the very foundations of Empire and patriarchy creates a spellbinding and challenging dialogue. It makes very real the depth of the atrocities Great Britain inflicted on Black bodies all while gaining wealth and power off them.
Single channel digital film (colour and sound)
4:10 mins, 16:9 aspect ratio
Writer: Enam Gbewonyo
Director and editor: Freddie Leyden
Performers: Enam Gbewonyo, Gre
Costume: Enam Gbewonyo
Sound Design: Gre, MR WIZE