Onyeka Igwe

Biography

Onyeka Igwe is an artist filmmaker, programmer and researcher. She lives and works in London. In her non-fiction video work Onyeka uses dance, voice, archive and text to expose a multiplicity of narratives. The work explores the physical body and geographical place as sites of cultural and political meaning. Her video works have shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, The Showroom, London, articule, Montreal and Trinity Square Video, Toronto as well as at the London, Edinburgh Artist Moving Image, Rotterdam International and Hamburg film festivals.

Directed

1. Ungentle (2022) — Director
2. A Radical Duet (2023) — Director
3. Notes on dancing with the archive (2023) — Director
4. Another Step Forward (2020) — Director
5. The Miracle on George Green (2022) — Director
6. 8 yams, 8 small yams, 8 eggs, a cow and a cockerel (2021) — Director
7. Sylvie’s Monologue (2023) — Director
8. Her Name in My Mouth (2018) — Director
9. Sitting on a Man (2018) — Director
10. Specialised Technique (2018) — Director
11. We Need New Names (2015) — Director
12. The Names Have Changed, Including My Own and Truths Have Been Altered (2019) — Director
13. No Archive Can Restore You (2020) — Director
14. A So-Called Archive (2020) — Director
15. Penkelemes (2025) — Director