Practice Makes Perfect

By Rosa-Johan Uddoh and Louis Brown 

Digital Film 

2021

20 mins

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With thanks to Focal Point Gallery, Bluecoat, East London Cable, Arts Council England, Bookworks and Chase High School. Sound by Joe Namy.

A Chicken Nuggie Production. Starring: Baboucarr, Charley, Daisy, Halla,
Jemimah, Mariya & Patrik, with special guest appearance from Mrs
Quarrell.

During Autumn 2020, I collaborated with Year 8 pupils at Chase Secondary
School in Southend-on-Sea, and my artistic collaborator Louis Brown, to
develop a series of videos inspired by her written work, WINDRUSH: A
TONGUE TWISTER. Investigating the importance of the school experience
and ‘rehearsing’ as ‘becoming’ or gaining subjectivity, this film shares
a collaborative process of acting out a dream education at a time of
heightened racial tension, class oppression and censorship; demanding
free artistic expression, free school meals and of course… free sweets.

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