Artist Residency, Ferrera, Italy.

A collaboration with Athene Greig. Ferrara Italy

2010, 03:48 mins

A series of audio and stills from locals of the Walworth/ East street community.

A work in progress

Magg Zelma

In 2017, Brixton based filmmaker Sandi Hudson-Francis struck up a friendship with 92 year- old Clovis Salmon, known locally as ‘Sam the Wheels’. She began documenting her encounters with Clovis over a two – year period.

The filmmaker invites us on a journey to explore the life of a Windrush Generation immigrant through her intimate portrait of Clovis Salmon, who left Jamaica in 1945 to work on sugar plantations in America before settling in Brixton in 1954, where he purchased a Super 8 film Camera and began documenting life around him.

Super Sam is the first in a series of films by Hudson-Francis that seek to explore her own families mixed Jamaican heritage and the relationship between different generations.

CAFE, walworth road (2016)

Stills - 35mm with Audio

A furious dance is an imagined interpretation of Bell Hooks’ collection of essays ‘BELONGING, A CULTURE OF PLACE’ that addresses themes of place, environmental and cultural sustainability, black agrarianism and radical politics. ‘We have forgotten the black farmer, the ancestors that gave to black folk from slavery on into reconstruction an oppositional consciousness’. Recalling the legacy of ancestors and their deep connections to the land and nature, what has survived and what has been lost in migration. A furious dance revisits the past to uncover, restore and deconstruct so that new paths are possible. It draws on beliefs and traditions that emerged within the middle passage. Spiritual healing ceremonies that evoke communication with ancestral spirits, addressing individual, communal and social issues that set in motion the means for putting things in order in the world and in nature. ‘When we love the earth, we are able to love ourselves more fully.” – Bell Hooks