All That is Solid

Director: Louis Henderson

Year: 2016

Made in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, a free adaptation of the poem 'The Sea is History' by Derek Walcott as a materialist and animist critique of the monumentalisation of European colonial history and its ripples into the present. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Experimenta Strand

Director: Louis Henderson

Year: 2015

"'Black Code/Code Noir' unites temporally and geographically disparate elements into a critical reflection on two recent events: the murders of Michael Brown and Kajieme Powell by police officers in the U.S. in 2014. Archaeologically, the film argues that behind this present situation is a sedimented history of slavery, preserved by the Black Code laws of the colonies in the Americas. These codes have transformed into the algorithms that configure police Big Data and the necropolitical control of African Americans today. Yet how can we read in this present? How can we unwrite the sorcery of this code as a hack? Through a historical détournement the film suggests the Haitian Revolution as the first instance of the Black Code’s hacking and as a past symbol for a future hope." Louis Henderson Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand

Director: Andrea Suwito

Year: 2026

In the ancient Bugis way of life in Indonesia, gender non-binary ‘bissu’ were once revered spiritual leaders. Eka, one of the last remaining bissu, decides to leave behind their identity, searching for belonging in a world that insists on definitions.