Michelle Williams Gamaker: Double Takes

Exploring inequities of the early film industry while retaining the magic of the studio filmmaking, artist filmmaker Michelle Williams Gamaker upturns colonial and imperialist storytelling of early 20th century cinema. Programmed with Williams Gamaker, this season pairs classic movies from early Hollywood and British cinema which feature racially marginalised actors: Merle Oberon, Anna May Wong and Sabu, with her own films, that restore the agency of these overlooked actors.
The season concludes with Incomplete Evidence – a film festival and workshop series presented by Cardiff University and Chapter, that brings Williams Gamaker’s work in dialogue with a series of feminist, queer, and anti-racist films that subvert and reimagine film history.
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Gan archwilio anghydraddoldebau’r diwydiant ffilm cynnar, a chadw hud gwaith creu ffilmiau stiwdio, mae artist a’r gwneuthurwr ffilm Michelle Williams Gamaker yn mynd â gwaith sinema sy’n adrodd straeon trefedigaethol ac imperialaidd ar ddechrau’r ugeinfed ganrif ac yn ei droi ar ei ben. Mae’r tymor yma, sydd wedi’i raglennu ar y cyd â’r Williams Gamaker, yn paru ffilmiau clasurol o sinema gynnar Hollywood a Phrydain sy’n cynnwys actorion sydd wedi’u hymylu ar sail hil: Merle Oberon, Anna May Wong a Sabu, gyda ffilmiau Williams Gamaker, sy’n adfer hunan-rym yr actorion yma a gafodd eu diystyru.
Yn cloi’r tymor bydd Tystiolaeth Anghyflawn – sef gŵyl ffilmiau a chyfres o weithdai a gyflwynir gan Brifysgol Caerdydd a Chapter, sy’n dod â gwaith Williams Gamaker mewn deialog â chyfres o ffilmiau ffeministaidd, cwiar, a gwrth-hiliol sy’n gwyrdroi ac yn ail-ddychmygu hanes ffilm.