Onyeka Igwe
- Known for
- Directing
Biography
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.
Movies directed by Onyeka Igwe
- Ungentle 2022 · ★ 6.1
- A Radical Duet 2023
- Notes on dancing with the archive 2023
- Another Step Forward 2020
- The Miracle on George Green 2022
- 8 yams, 8 small yams, 8 eggs, a cow and a cockerel 2021
- Sylvie’s Monologue 2023
- Her Name in My Mouth 2018
- Sitting on a Man 2018
- Specialised Technique 2018
- We Need New Names 2015
- The Names Have Changed, Including My Own and Truths Have Been Altered 2019
- No Archive Can Restore You 2020
- A So-Called Archive 2020
- Penkelemes 2025
- No Archive Can Restore this Chorus of (Diasporic) Shame 2026