7:00pm doors, 7:30pm films start Tickets are £3 – or pay what you want – and are available on the link or pay on the night. Full of Noises will show a selection of short films by Hope Pearl Strickland followed by a Q and A with the artist. Hope is a British Jamaican artist-filmmaker from Manchester working across experimental and documentary-based modes. Hope’s work wrestles with the choices undertaken when we visualise racialised violence, attempting to ask how we might live in a world and relate to one another with care whilst amongst and against systems of power and control. A particular focus is given to re-entangling the supposedly disparate landscapes of Jamaica and the North of England, through an attention to labour migration, diasporic longing and resource extraction. Films to be shown: AN UNIMAGINABLE LEAP (2026 forthcoming) 17minutes 40seconds 16mm, archival This is a brand new work by Hope. St, Mary’s Parish, Jamaica, April 1760, in a cave near what is now known as Tacky Falls. Tacky’s Rebellion is unfolding as the most significant revolt of the eighteenth-century Caribbean, three decades before the Haitian Revolution. The aim is to take control of the British island colony and create a Black independent state. An Unimaginable Leap considers the relationship between revolutionary time and cinematic form. Filming takes place across loosely associated events and places: b-roll 16mm footage of daily life in Jamaica; caves in the Peak District and Derbyshire; a celebration of Jamaican Independence Day at a cricket club in South Manchester. A RIVER HOLDS A PERFECT MEMORY (2024) 17minutes 18seconds archival, 16mm, LIDAR A River Holds A Perfect Memory meanders gently across waterways in Jamaica, through leisure activities such as rafting on the Martha Brae River and a night-time boat trip in Falmouth’s bioluminescent Lagoon. In the UK, archival footage tracks industrial impact upon the landscape in Northern England – as water becomes a resource and a reservoir is constructed in Rochdale. HOLDINGS (2023) archival, 16mm 1minute 48seconds Holdings explores our relationship with birds as objects to be held and beings to be cared for. Practices that may at first appear violent yet are rooted in care; practices that sustain care in the aftermath of brutality. Visuals balance bird ringing in Elthorne Park, specimens from the Philip Henry Gosse collection at Liverpool World Museum and archival footage. I’LL BE BACK! (2022) 10minutes 58seconds digital, archival, 16mm I’ll Be Back! begins and ends with the story of the rebel maroon Francois Mackandal. In 1758, Mackandal was condemned to be burned at the stake, not only for his crimes but for his radical powers of metamorphosis. Filmed in archives and museums across the UK, I’ll Be Back! explores a series of collections holding objects of colonial violence. Amongst these is a book containing a diagram of a slave ship, a key document in the abolitionist movement widely published for its shocking nature, and a collection of insects gathered in Sierra Leone by a colonial topographer mapping borders and defining British and French territory in West Africa. Shifting across digital, 16mm and archival formats, the film interrogates institutional collecting practices and reconsiders the distances between myth, history and machinations of power. Hope Strickland biography Hope’s work has screened internationally at film festivals including the 59th New York Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (New Cinema Awards). Presentations in exhibition spaces include Looking Back (Being and Memory) at Arnolfini, Bristol, Bugs and Metamorphosis: Glitching Photography by the Hasselblad Center at Gothenburg Art Museum and the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes at Serpentine Galleries. Her work has been commissioned by organisations across the UK including FACT, Liverpool, Touchstones Gallery, Rochdale and Film and Video Umbrella. Hope was awarded the Aesthetica Emerging Art Prize in 2023 and was shortlisted for the 2025 Jarman Award. https://hopestrickland.com

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