Amelia Parillon

Daisey has the hots for Owens, a customer at her florist. Owens feels the same. But who will make the first move?

Métèque tells the story of Samia, a young Moroccan banker who lives in London and finds herself threatened to get deported following an administrative oversight. This all triggers her to look for her identity and to unfold her love for her best friend Zoe. Following themes of displacement, she grapples with her identity in a society that no longer wants her, among a group of shifting friends who struggle to understand her experiences and her undeniable desire for a love that she needs but is unable to ask for.

The second film in the series, 'Relic 1' forms part of Larry Achiampong's Relic Traveller: Phase 1, a multi-disciplinary project manifesting in performance, audio, moving image and prose. Taking place across various landscapes and locations, the project builds upon a postcolonial perspective informed by technology, agency and the body, and narratives of migration. In the short film, a Relic Traveller is featured apparating sites across a seemingly desolate United Kingdom. Uncovering fragments of audible data presenting clue-like testimonies to a forgotten Empire, the Relic Traveller soon finds themselves in an atmosphere that simultaneously delivers poetic moments of the sublime met with increasingly harrowing claustrophobia and tales of trauma. Thus resulting in a familiar feeling of otherness, we are invited on a journey that embodies hysteria.