Cultural Field, 2022. 

50mins.

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My most ambitious film to date, performed by 12 female, non-binary & trans footballers and performers, directed by Louis Brown and Jos Bitelli. It records the meeting of fictional 5-a-side football teams ANTI-CAPITALISTS UTD and CAPITALIST CITY on one of the largest areas of common land remaining in Greater London. Competing for the Cup, players improvise in-role as characters including TENANT, COLONIALIST, in a power struggle for land.

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Live-action gameplay and in-studio punditry moves between gameplay and socio-economic analysis inspired by Rosa Luxemberg, the Football Association’s 1921 ban on women footballers, and the historic enclosure of English common land.

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The film plays with the line between improvisation and scripting, sport and theatre. The script works like a sort of 'Murder Mystery Dinner Party', where the outcome of the narrative was determined by the actual result of the real 'improvised' football game the players play, rather than by me, the writer, ahead of time. That said, unknown to all the participants, there are certain 'rigs' or 'theatrical set pieces', fed to the REF, MANAGER and certain players, to disrupt their agency & push them into more dramatic and competitive scenarios. 

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A film by Rosa-Johan Uddoh

Directed by Louis Brown and Jos Bitelli

Produced by Jos Bitelli, Louis Brown and Rosa-Johan Uddoh

Commissioning Curator - Jessie Krish

Edited by Louis Brown

Director of Photography - Lou Macnamara

Additional story by Louis Brown

Costume by Meera Shakti Osborne, Cynthia Sylveira and Rosa-Johan Uddoh

Headwear by Leo Carlton. 

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Colourist: Luis Reggiardo

Sound by Toby Burroughs and Joe Namy

Graphics by Rachel Sale 

Animation and additional graphics by Jos Bitelli

Photos by Anne Tetzlaff 

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Funded by Arts Council England, Central Saint Martins, Liverpool John Moores University. ​

With support from East London Cable. 

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Screened in my hometown at The Whitgift Centre, Croydon c/o Turf Projects.