
Onyeka Igwe
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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.
No Archive Can Restore this Chorus of (Diasporic) Shame
2026 · Director

Penkelemes
2025 · Director

A Radical Duet
2023 · Director

A Radical Duet
2023 · Writer
Notes on dancing with the archive
2023 · Director
Sylvie’s Monologue
2023 · Director

Ungentle
2022 · Director

Ungentle
2022 · Editor

The Miracle on George Green
2022 · Director

8 yams, 8 small yams, 8 eggs, a cow and a cockerel
2021 · Director
Another Step Forward
2020 · Director

A So-Called Archive
2020 · Director

A So-Called Archive
2020 · Sound Recordist

No Archive Can Restore You
2020 · Director

Collective Hum
2020 · Cinematography

Collective Hum
2020 · Editor

The Names Have Changed, Including My Own and Truths Have Been Altered
2019 · Director

Specialised Technique
2018 · Director

Specialised Technique
2018 · Editor

Specialised Technique
2018 · Writer

Her Name in My Mouth
2018 · Director

Sitting on a Man
2018 · Director

We Need New Names
2015 · Director
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