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Hope Pearl Strickland is an artist-filmmaker from Manchester, UK, working across experimental and documentary-based modes. Her work wrestles with the choices undertaken when we visualise racialised violence, attempting 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. Films move across archival, 16mm and digital practices, seeking to undo time from its tethered logics and consider blackness through a disobedient relationship to cinematic form. A particular focus is given to re-entangling the supposedly disparate landscapes of Jamaica and the North of England, through an attention to labour migration, diasporic longing and resource extraction.


Hope’s work has screened internationally at film festivals including the 59th New York Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival (2022), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2025) and Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (New Cinema Awards, 2025). Presentations in exhibition spaces include Looking Back (Being and Memory) at Arnolfini, Bristol, Bugs and Metamorphosis: Glitching Photography by the Hasselblad Center at Gothenburg Art Museum and the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes at Serpentine Galleries. Hope was awarded the Aesthetica Emerging Art Prize in 2023.

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

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Recent/Forthcoming

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

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

shortlisted for the Jarman Award, 2025