Cette Maison, This House, 2022. Credit: Miryam Charles
£10/£5 members & concessions
Join us for a screening of two films by Miryam Charles, programmed by Ufuoma Essi as part of A Month of Single Frames.
The screening includes two films by Haitian-Canadian filmmaker Miryam Charles, exploring the ripple effects of grief and diasporic displacement. Shot on 16mm, these textured, exquisitely haunting films reflect on the passing of time, memory and an alternative future after an immeasurable loss. Moving geographically between Canada, Haiti and the United States, the films’ experimental nature invites a more critical mode of spectatorship, to look beyond and within. – Ufuoma Essi
PROGRAMME
Miryam Charles, All the Days of May, 2023 (7 min) – Following the shooting of a documentary on the death of her daughter, a mother reflects on her own life and especially on the passing of time.
Miryam Charles, This House, 2022 (1h 15 min) – Bridgeport, January 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship between the security of the living space and the violence that can jeopardise it.
Attention: Themes of death, grief, and suicide.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Miryam Charles is a director, producer and cinematographer living in Montreal. She has produced several short and feature films. She is also the director of several short films. Her films have been presented in various festivals in Quebec and internationally. She has just completed the direction of her first feature film This House. Her work explores themes related to exile and the legacies of colonization. Miryam Charles is a director, producer and cinematographer living in Montreal from Haitian descent
Ufuoma Essi is an artist and filmmaker born and based in South East London.
ABOUT A MONTH OF SINGLE FRAMES
Led by Ufuoma Essi, Sam Williams, and Tendai Mutambu, A Month of Single Frames is a film collective dedicated to bringing artists’ moving image into conversation through film programming, an annual journal and artist moving image production.
A Month of Single Frames is committed to expanding access to artists’ moving image and experimental cinema, introducing this work to audiences who may not yet have encountered it.
South by South will be curated by Ufuoma Essi.
ABOUT SOUTH BY SOUTH
South by South is a quarterly film screening at the South London Gallery. This programme focuses on presenting cinema from Africa and the diaspora to audiences in the UK.
ACCESS
- Wheelchair Access and Accessible Toilets are available at this site.
- Seating will be available
- This space will be low lit during the screenings.
- Please contact mail@southlondongallery.org with any further access requirements.