We’re thrilled to announce the three artists selected for SKIP/INTRO. Each will receive an artists’ fee/budget of £1500, an additional £2000 of production support, as well as curatorial support and online distribution.
Over the next few months, Ufuoma Essi, Luce Howell and Patrick Taylor will each produce an artists film that has something important to say about our current moment. For now, get to know them, their project, and past work! 👇
Ufuoma Essi
Bodies In Dissent explores the collective relationship that Black women have in shaping their history, the re-cycling pattern of trans-generational life, past, present and future. Through archives and testimonies, I want to examine the specific histories that shape our understanding of the past, which is necessary more than ever in our current moment.
Ufuoma is a video artist and filmmaker from Lewisham, South East London. She works predominantly with film and moving image as well as photography and sound. Her work revolves around Black feminist epistemology and the configuration of displaced histories.
Luce Howell
Your Heart Out will follow three members from the LGBTQ+ community, vlogging their journeys of living with eating
disorders and striving for recovery. This film will be an important mouthpiece, highlighting the unique challenges that sexuality and gender present, making LGBTQ people at greater risk of developing an eating disorder.
Luce is a Leeds based multidisciplinary artist and the creative director of LGBTQ media project Outposts. Recently graduating at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the BA Performance and Creative Enterprise, they aim to generate work that explores socially engaged contexts. They are co-founder of Outposts.
Check out Luce’s Outposts project website ¦ instagram
Patrick Taylor
I wanted to pay tribute to my Mother, a Filipino nurse within the NHS, and to explore why the Philippines has become the largest supplier of nurses worldwide. Nars (Tagalog for ‘Nurse’) seeks to dissect an intersection of race and gender by placing it within the confines of a pandemic, and the wider context of POC in healthcare.
Patrick is a London-based filmmaker born and raised in Stoke-on-Trent. His work encompasses elements of hyper-realism to portray emotionally resonant and thought-provoking stories. Selected works have featured at Nowness, British Film Institute, London Short Film Festival and more. He is also the founder and editor of u ok hun, an emotional and practical online resource for good mental health and well being within the creative arts.