Hope Strickland's FVU-commissioned film a river holds a perfect memory (2024) will screen as part of the Other Cinemas Weekender, 'Colonialism and the Climate Crisis', as part of the event 'By The Water'. 

"...we [Other Cinemas] are screening three short films which trace the flow of labour and extraction through rivers, oceans and water bodies. Together these films ask how we confront and undo legacies of colonialism and ecological devastation and what we can learn from waters which find their way back."

a river holds a perfect memory (2024) meanders gently across waterways in Jamaica, through leisure activities such as rafting on the Martha Brae River and a night-time boat trip in Falmouth’s bioluminescent Lagoon. In the UK, archival footage tracks industrial impact upon the landscape in Northern England - as water becomes a resource and a reservoir is constructed in Rochdale.

The film considers the interrelation of water, memory and labour and plays with techniques of refusal, errantry and repetition. Through the divergent and overlapping temporalities of working across archival footage, newly shot 16mm and LIDAR scans, the film uses water to track the impact of the industrial revolution and labour migration upon supposedly disparate communities.