If I Could Name You Myself (I Would Hold You Forever)

Name: If I Could Name You Myself (I Would Hold You Forever)
Director: Hope Strickland
Genre: Experimental, Woman Director
Released: 2021
Duration: 7 min 58 sec

Synopsis

Cotton is a plant with connotations that far surpass its delicate white flowers, bringing to mind issues of enforced labour, of exploitation and of colonialism. Yet the very crop for which Creole women were forced into labour, offered a form of herbal resistance: cotton root bark could be used as birth control. Herbal knowledge carefully gathered and held, was used amongst the women to defy a lineage of servitude. Beneath the inherent violence of the slave economic system, we find quiet resistance and moments of deep, loving rebellion. IF I COULD NAME YOU MYSELF (I WOULD HOLD YOU FOREVER) is in memoriam of this legacy.
Artist Film Commission for HOME, Manchester, March 2021

Details

Year: 2021
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 7 min 58 sec
Format: digital
Director: Hope Strickland
Producer: Jessica El Mal

Genre

Experimental Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

rhstricklandspence@gmail.com

+44 (0)7583 720805

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