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Hope is an artist-filmmaker and researcher from Manchester, UK with British-Jamaican heritage. 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.

2022-2026 - Practice-based PhD in Film, CREAM, The University of Westminster, Quintin Hogg Trust Scholarship

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Recent/Forthcoming

Stuart Hall Conference, The University of Birmingham - October 2024

Archival Fabulations, Screening and Panel at Tranzit.sk, Bratislava, Slovakia – November 2024

International Film Festival Rotterdam - January 2025

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