I'll Be Back
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- Year
- 2022
- Type of film
- Shorts
- Running time
- 11 mins
- Director
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Hope Strickland
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If I Could Name You Myself (I Would Hold You Forever)
Director: Hope Strickland
Year: 2021
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.<br /> Artist Film Commission for HOME, Manchester, March 2021