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.

KNOWN FOR

Collective Hum
2020
Specialised Technique
2018
Ungentle
2022
A Radical Duet
2023
A So-Called Archive
2020
Penkelemes
2025
No Archive Can Restore You
2020
We Need New Names
2015
Notes on dancing with the archive
2023
8 yams, 8 small yams, 8 eggs, a cow and a cockerel
2021
The Miracle on George Green
2022
Her Name in My Mouth
2018

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Directing
16
Writing
2
Editing
3
Sound
1
Crew
1
2026
No Archive Can Restore this Chorus of (Diasporic) Shame
Director · unreleased
2025
Penkelemes
Director
2023
A Radical Duet
Director
2023
Notes on dancing with the archive
Director
2023
Sylvie’s Monologue
Director
2022
Ungentle
Director
2022
The Miracle on George Green
Director
2021
8 yams, 8 small yams, 8 eggs, a cow and a cockerel
Director
2020
Another Step Forward
Director
2020
No Archive Can Restore You
Director
2020
A So-Called Archive
Director
2019
The Names Have Changed, Including My Own and Truths Have Been Altered
Director
2018
Her Name in My Mouth
Director
2018
Sitting on a Man
Director
2018
Specialised Technique
Director
2015
We Need New Names
Director