An unimaginable leap
(forthcoming 2026) 17minutes 48seconds
Digital: 16mm colour, b&w, archival, hi8
16mm print
with funding from Arts Council England and The Elephant Trust, archival footage courtesy of the North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University
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.
An unimaginable leap (2025) considers the relationship between grief, revolutionary time and cinematic form. Filming traverses loosely associated events and places in the contemporary: b-roll 16mm footage of daily life in Jamaica with the artist’s family; silhouettes of caves in the Peak District and Derbyshire; a celebration of Jamaica Independence Day at a cricket club in Manchester.