I am an artist filmmaker who is interested in the layering and weaving together of Caribbean post-colonial realities, ecological urgencies, and Black mixed-heritage identities, through a lens that is decolonial and rooted in the Black Radical Imagination. I often draw on my Trinidadian upbringing and my positioning as a Black mixed-heritage person in the diaspora. My work centres and works outwardly from the body, and there is a desire to create a spiritual and other-realmly spaciousness that leaves room for multiple liberational possibilities. Combining social practice, documentary filmmaking, dance and movement, the layered and multi-textural nature of my films speaks to multiple truths existing at once, and the inherent interconnectedness of the wider political, structural and global as it pertains to the personal, intimate and individual.
I often work with Super 8 film, and am interested in the ways analogue interrupts and merges with the digital image when explored and layered together. Being periodically based in Folkestone, Kent, my work often collaborates with the land and seascapes of the coastline, creating parallels and connections with that of Trinidad, and drawing on resonances of history, memory, migration and ancestry that the connecting body of water is reminiscent of.
Having graduated from Kingston School of Art in 2021, I have recently completed an MA at Central Saint Martins in Performance: Screen. My work has been screened and exhibited at Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (2021), Black Cultural Archives (2023), Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (2021, 2022), and Folkestone Documentary Festival (2023), among others. I was recently commissioned to create and present a work-in-progress film and exhibition in Folkestone, for SALT + EARTH Festival (2024) and have held multiple screenings in the town, with the arts organisations Folkestone Fringe and Creative Folkestone. My work has also been featured in exhibitions at Soho House: White City Studios (2023) and Lyric Hammersmith (2022) Theatre in London.
I currently reside between Folkestone and London.
To get in contact, please email rhianakb@gmail.com