Phoenix
Leicester’s independent cinema and digital arts centre, Phoenix, will be hosting works by artists Rowland Hill and Hope Strickland.
Rowland Hill’s ‘Tha-at's right’ is a film in which three dancers and a small crew attempt to choreograph a dance from a dance review, written in 1959 by critic and poet Edwin Denby. His review captures Stravinsky’s final ballet ‘Agon’ via an idiosyncratic stream of metaphors. ‘Tha-at's right’ takes Denby at his word, translating his criticism back into the language of dance.
Hope Strickland’s ‘Home Soon Come’ is part of an on-going project with the elderly Caribbean community in South Manchester. It is an experimental documentary that moves between archival footage of the Caribbean Islands, scenes shot in a day centre for the Caribbean elderly and interviews with the filmmaker's family members. It explores diasporic movements, memory-placing through domestic objects and what it means to find ourselves at home in the people around us.