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FAMILY LINES Project | Screenings

Shadi Abdel Salam
The Night of Counting the Years

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present the tenth and final of the screenings of Art from the African Diaspora as part of Alice Rekab’s multi-platform project FAMILY LINES. Aiming to platform the voices of Black artists and artists of colour and to represent intergenerational legacies of self-representation in the production of film, writing and visual […]

Salma Ahmad Caller
Shell Fables ~ a Curious Cabinet of Beings & Becoming

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present the ninth of the screenings of Art from the African Diaspora as part of Alice Rekab’s multi-platform project FAMILY LINES: Shell Fables ~ a Curious Cabinet of Beings & Becoming by Salma Ahmad Caller (2022). This seventeen minute film is Salma Ahmad Caller’s first film, a prototype, curating her mixed-race identity […]

Zinzi Minott
Fi Dem II

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present the eighth of the screenings of Art from the African Diaspora as part of Alice Rekab’s multi-platform project FAMILY LINES. Aiming to platform the voices of Black artists and artists of colour and to represent intergenerational legacies of self-representation in the production of film, writing and visual art, Alice […]

Holly Graham & Zinzi Minott
Petname: Momma . Me Mudder . Sis . Brodder . Sweetie . Carmen . Plummy & Fi Dem II

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present a special in-person screening of Petname: Momma . Me Mudder . Sis . Brodder . Sweetie . Carmen . Plummy (2014) by Holly Graham and Fi Dem II (2019) by Zinzi Minott as part of Alice Rekab’s multi-platform project FAMILY LINES. The screening will take place on Tuesday, 19 […]

Holly Graham
Momma . Me Mudder . Sis . Brodder . Sweetie . Carmen . Plummy

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present the seventh of the screenings of Art from the African Diaspora as part of Alice Rekab’s multi-platform project FAMILY LINES: Petname: Momma . Me Mudder . Sis . Brodder . Sweetie . Carmen . Plummy by Holly Graham (2014). A brother nicknamed ‘Brother’ A sister referred to as ‘Momma’ A […]

Jennifer Martin
TEETH

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present the sixth of the screenings of Art from the African Diaspora as part of Alice Rekab’s multi-platform project FAMILY LINES. Aiming to platform the voices of other artists of colour and to represent intergenerational legacies of self-representation in the production of film, writing and visual art, Alice Rekab and […]

Larry Achiampong & Jennifer Martin
The Expulsion and TEETH

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present a special in-person screening of The Expulsion (2019) by Larry Achiampong and TEETH (2019) by Jennifer Martin as part of Alice Rekab’s multi-platform project FAMILY LINES. The screening will take place on Thursday, 10 March at 6pm at the Edmund Burke Lecture Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin. […]

Larry Achiampong
The Expulsion

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present the fifth of the screenings of Art from the African Diaspora as part of Alice Rekab’s multi-platform project FAMILY LINES: The Expulsion by Larry Achiampong (2019). The Expulsion is a deeply personal work crafted from the imagination of Larry Achiampong. The short film highlights the rich interior world of an […]

Ufuoma Essi
All That You Can’t Leave Behind

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present the fourth of the screenings of Art from the African Diaspora as part of Alice Rekab’s multi-platform project FAMILY LINES: All That You Can’t Leave Behind by Ufuoma Essi (2019). Selected by Éireann and I, All That You Can’t Leave Behind is an experimental film that works with appropriated video […]

A photograph of two black people crouched down with their arms stretched out and hands placed on the other person's shoulders.
Onyeka Igwe
The names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present the third of the Screenings of Art from the African Diaspora, part of Alice Rekab’s multi-platform project FAMILY LINES: The names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered by Onyeka Igwe (2019). Selected by Éireann and I, The names have changed, including my own and truths […]

A black and white photograph of a black man lying down with a hand on his bare chest and a hand palm up placed on the pillow beside his head.
Black Audio Film Collective
Twilight City

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present the second of the screenings of Art from the African Diaspora as part of Alice Rekab’s multi-platform project FAMILY LINES, Black Audio Film Collective’s film Twilight City (1989). This seminal film uses a fictional letter from a woman to her mother considering a return to London, to create a framework for […]

A black and white photograph with a man on the left, a woman in the centre and another woman on the right. All figures are looking into the camera.
Martina Attille
Dreaming Rivers

Dreaming Rivers (1988) is a film written and directed by Martina Attille for Sankofa Film & Video. In this allegorical work, actor Corinne Skinner Carter performs the role of Ms T, a black Caribbean woman in transition. Her children Daughter (Angela Wynter), Sister (Nimmy March) and Sonny (Roderick Hart) sit at her bedside and attend to […]