FILM: Hope Strickland: An Unimaginable Leap + retrospective

7:00pm doors, 7:30pm films start Tickets are £3 – or pay what you want – and are available on the link or pay on the night. Full of Noises will show a selection of short films by Hope Pearl Strickland followed by a Q and A with the artist. Hope is a British Jamaican artist-filmmaker from Manchester working across experimental and documentary-based modes. Hope’s 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. 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. Films to be shown: AN UNIMAGINABLE LEAP (2026 forthcoming) 17minutes 40seconds 16mm, archival This is a brand new work by Hope. St, Mary’s Parish, Jamaica, April 1760, in a cave near what is now known as Tacky Falls. Tacky’s Rebellion is unfolding as the most significant revolt of the eighteenth-century Caribbean, three decades before the Haitian Revolution. The aim is to take control of the British island colony and create a Black independent state. An Unimaginable Leap considers the relationship between revolutionary time and cinematic form.