BlackFest 2022 - Independent Film Screening at FACT

Schedule

Fri Sep 30 2022 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Location

FACT Liverpool | Liverpool, EN

BlackFest 2022 - Independent Film Screening - at FACT 'Displaced' by Akeim Toussaint
About this Event

Independent Film Screening

We are very excited to bring renowned Leeds based artist to Liverpool and follow this intimate migration story curated through the lens of film and authenticity of lived experience. Join us for a screening of Displaced by Akeim Toussaint followed by a panel discussion.

About Akeim Toussaint

Akeim Toussaint Buck is a performer and maker, born in Jamaica and raised in England. Graduating from Northern School of Contemporary Dance in 2014, Toussaint Buck has been involved in many cross disciplinary projects working with a range of artists and communities from around the world. His focus as a maker and collaborator is to combine expressive skills such as: dance, poetry, beat-box, singing and acting through performance and storytelling that reach beyond existing dance audiences. The work aims to challenge, enlighten and entertain the spectator and participant. Audiences are not just observers; they are implicit in the experience. The work aims to reflect on reality, looking at ongoing socio-political situations with a humanitarian intention.

Akeim's choreography and performance work includes: Snakebox's PLAY, Windows of Displacement, Reckoning, Sib Y Osis, Beatmotion and Souls & Cells. Film work includes Galvanise & Displaced etc. Movement Director credits include Far Gone, Carnival Chronicles, Idol, High Rise Estate of Mind. Curated events Snakebox & Friends and Radical Visions.

About the Film

Displaced is the cinematic reimagining of Akeim Toussaint Buck’s one-man dance theatre show: ‘Windows of Displacement’. Created and Co-Directed by Ashley Karrell, the film continues the exploration of themes such as: displacement, race, culture and imperialism. Focusing more on the African Diaspora via the settings of the inner-city community. Taking aspects of the live work and re-contextualising them in real life spaces that support in amplifying this feeling of displacement. Giving the viewer a fraction of the feeling of being displaced people. Visually captivating with striking imagery and virtuoso dance, ‘Displaced’ takes the viewer on a journey calling for reflection and global change.

Limited spaces please book to save your space.