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Hope is an artist-filmmaker and researcher from Manchester, UK. Her work sits at the intersection of experimental film and documentary practices, moving across archival, analogue and digital formats in order to quietly sit across from and outside of time. Her practice wrestles with violence, disparate colonial landscapes and attempts to ask how we might live in a world and relate to one another with care whilst amongst and against systems of power and control. 

Hope’s work has screened internationally at film festivals including the 59th New York Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland and Exis Experimental Film Festival, Seoul. She was awarded the 2023 Aesthetica Emerging Art Prize.

2022-2025 - Practice-based PhD in Film, CREAM, The University of Westminster, Quintin Hogg Trust Scholarship

                            please email for a full CV 

Recent/Forthcoming

Bugs & Metamorphosis, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden - February - May 2025

Irish Film Institute and AEMI: At the Heart of the Real - 7 April 2025

Serpentine Cinema: The World’s Womb, London - 8 April 2025

Colonialism and Climate Crises, Other Cinemas Weekender, London - 11 April 2025

Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick - May 2025

Open City Documentary Film Festival, London - May 2025

Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami - May 2025

Mascara Film Club, London - May 2025

Water as Method: Space, Place and the Hydrological Gaze in Moving Images, Symposium at Glasgow School of Art - June 2025