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Through a Shimmering Prism, We Made a Way

Rhea Storr

Synopsis

Three sisters move through public/political space - a square, bridge, garden and hill- in this exploration of Black diaspora. Starting at empty carnival/parade routes in London, United Kingdom and Nassau, Bahamas, the film reflects on progress, the architectural histories of colonialism, and the female body in public space.

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Details

Year: 2021
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: 17 min 36 sec
Format: Super 8
Director: Rhea Storr
Editor: Rhea Storr
Director of Photography: Rhea Storr
Sound: Tommie Introna, Black Shuck
Principal cast: Alisa Sumner, Nicole Wood, Stella Konadu Verdoes

Genre

Experimental Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Sales Company

LUX Moving Image

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A summer in the life of a filmmaker weaving her way through six carnivals in England. Observing Caribbean cultural life celebrated-and contested- in public space. We witness multi stage soundsystems, Black Lives Matter floats, histories of violence and peace in the geography of local cities. This film is about how to (and how not to) make an image. The film is inspired by Isaac Julien’s TERRITORIES, made with Sankofa Film and Video Collective in 1984. While Julien catalogues the antagonistic relationship between Black community and the police at Notting Hill Carnival, NEW TERRITORIES considers the role of spectatorship turned consumerism in laying the ground in which Black and Caribbean identities are defined. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025

Experimental

Here Is the Imagination of the Black Radical

Director: Rhea Storr

Year: 2020

Junkanoo, a carnival-like celebration in the Bahamas, is a culture with innovative costume designs. Aesthetic and political intertwine as we follow the Shell Saxon Superstars in the year-long production of costumes.

Experimental

Spacewoman

Director: Hannah Berryman

Year: 2024

A landmark feature documentary about astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command the Space Shuttle. Eileen’s incredible journey starts with her smalltown beginnings, sees her smash through many glass ceilings, and culminates in four dramatic space shuttle missions, the last being possibly the most dangerous and most important of them all. At its heart the film is the moving human drama of one family, where a mother’s extraordinary career takes us straight to the big philosophical question of what is the level of acceptable risk in human endeavour? This film celebrates Commander Collins’ trailblazing NASA career which opened the way for women to become spacecraft pilots and commanders, and proved a perfect riposte to a previous generation of male astronauts who thought there was no place for women to lead the way in space. Official Selection DOC NYC 2024 - World premiere Official Selection CPH:DOX 2025 - European premiere

Woman Director