Morisha Moodley's FVU-commissioned work Sideweighs and Backwords features as part of a screening event with Goldsmiths CCA co-curated with Emily Simmons, founder of Crip Cinema Archive, held as part of the exhibition Flare-Up.
About the event
Illegibility for all
7pm–8.30pm
Featuring: Seo Hye Lee, Louise Hickman, Jordan Lord, Morisha Moodley, Finnegan Shannon and Paula Stuttman.
Illegibility for all is a screening event co-curated with Emily Simmons, founder of Crip Cinema Archive, held as part of our current exhibition Flare-Up. The event presents moving-image works that explore the conditions of access in film today. Each work is made by artists for whom access is an active, creative dimension of their practice – not a bolt-on, a translation, or a segregated stage of a film’s lifespan. These filmmakers are inventing new modes of access, integrating it into the fabric of their work, and posing questions to their audiences along the way.
This screening is a space for critique. A place to interrogate the idea of “creative access”. To wonder about the balance of aesthetics and function. To ask questions rather than supply answers – except one: access, everywhere, now.
In An All-Around Feel Good (2024), Jordan Lord asks what it means to be an audience in the wake of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Louise Hickman and Finnegan Shannon’s Captioning on Captioning (2022) attends to the intimate knowledge and care required to produce access. Seo Hye Lee’s [sound of subtitles] (2021) playfully probes the space between language and sound, drawing an analogy between the shaping of clay on a wheel and the way communication shapes meaning.
Morisha Moodley’s Sideweighs and Backwords (2026) foregrounds the imperfect action of memory, revelling in inarticulation to reflect experiences of migration, disability, and mental illness. Paula Stuttman’s Rotten Representations: one armed go go dancer (2024)weaves descriptive subtitles and audio description into a sharp and playful examination of disability representation in the feature film The Last Waltz (1978).
THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE CINEMA LOCATED IN THE RICHARD HOGGART BUILDING ON GOLDSMITHS CAMPUS, NOT AT CCA.
– Reception: Main Entrance of Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths University of London (MAP)
– Venue: Cinema, G/F Richard Hoggart Building (MAP)
– Doors open: 7pm
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Sideweighs and Backwords (2026) has been commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella as part of FVU New Takes. FVU New Takes is supported by Jerwood Foundation. Exhibition partner: Arnolfini, Bristol. FVU and Arnolfini are supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
