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2 Apr

Watch: Jade O’Belle’s film Birthright unearths the facility of

Watch: Jade O’Belle’s film Birthright unearths the facility of
Jade O’Belle’s short film Birthright (2022) opens with the image of swirling, foaming waters. From there, we're initiated right into a dazzlingly and decadent world; a metaphysical space where time and memory collapse and turn into embodied through ritual. Having shared the trailer last yr, Dazed now presents the digital premiere of the complete short film. O’Belle, who wrote, directed and starred in Birthright (Girls In Film Productions), tells Dazed how the project was born from from a desire to reconnect along with her body. “I used to be doing these intuitive rituals to attempt to connect with myself,” she says. Following her intuition, she found herself drawn to certain colors, textures and pictures. “I used to be selecting blues and silvers...
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27 Dec

Watch the trailer for Jade O’Belle’s mesmerising film Birthright

Watch the trailer for Jade O’Belle’s mesmerising film Birthright
Watch the trailer for Jade “Once you’re from a colonised background, you might be taught to discard your body and values Watch the trailer for Jade. Your adopted histories should not your individual,” explains Jade O’Belle. “My paternal side of the family is Yoruba-Nigerian. My grandparents got here over within the late Fifties so my father was born in South London. My connection to my Yoruba culture is from a dysphoric western viewpoint as I haven’t been to Nigeria yet. All the things I’ve learnt has been from watching my family navigate through England as Nigerians… But despite the fact that my understanding of my family’s cultural history is dispersed, it could be reclaimed in a latest way of ownership.” The British interdisciplinary...
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