Georgina Quach

Still We Thrive, written and directed by Campbell X, ensures we never look away from the past. It brings together contemporary Black actors speaking to camera with archive footage of Black history from the Caribbean, United Kingdom, United States and the African continent. As poet Elizabeth Alexander said, for so long, communities of colour have had to “carry around knowledge and stories in our bodies,” because resources were not devoted to preserving the spaces that held those stories and culture.

Georgina Quach

In Suffocation, sunlight feels harsh. Harsh in the sense that we have been kept in the dark for too long. We, scarred by racism and empire, welcome the sun: it exposes “colonial dust” – what is left in the wake of the bombs, deforestation and destruction used to maintain the mythscape of colonialism.

Georgina Quach responds to Margot Conde Arenas’ Aunque Me Vaya Lejos (Even If I Go Far), which shares the stories of Venezuelan immigrants, refugees and ‘caminantes’ (walkers) in their own voices.

Georgina Quach responds to Silk, a filmic poem by Martha Williams that provides a manifesto of defiant beauty, made as part of the Sorry I Was on Mute series.