Part of: Bodies of Knowledge
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Fashion Film
- What is your name and how would you describe what you do?
Clay Grandison: Clay; art director, VFX animator, character designer and installer.
- What's your background?
CG: Black Caribbean-British.
- What inspires you?
CG: The otherworldly and familiar.
- What is the ambition behind your practice?
CG: My practice is a vessel of reconciliation between this world and the next one.
- What did you hope to convey with your Bodies Of Knowledge film?
CG: I wanted to work with adults and children to address my concerns for past and future identities of Black Womxn.
Direction and Character Installation:
Assistant Direction:
Shashamani
Talent:
Erin Campbell, Reiss Campbell
Set Design:
Layan Harman
Cinematography:
Gwenna Harman
Production:
Oya
Production Coordination:
David Harbott
Assistant Set Installation:
Rowan Gatherer
Assistant Garment Installation:
Artemis Guy
Special Thanks to:
Greg Campbell, Jonathan Carson, Hanna Flora Kiss
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Video
Thighs: Willy Ndatira & Xavier Scott Marshall
22 July 2022
The art director and image-maker collaborated on a series of photographs of black trans women, analysed by Ndatira, to implore viewers to rethink their relationships to white supremacist capitalistic patriarchal artworks, traditions and institutions.
Fashion Film
Pleasure: Aaron Rose Philip
22 July 2022
The model conveys the subjective nature of emotion, specifically pleasure, in a film by John Novotny.