UPPLAND
'Uppland' is an essay film (30mins), made in collaboration with Director Edward Lawrenson, that explores the invisible, beyond the colonial frame, using memory, voice and absence to reveal the present deprivations of Yekepa, an abandoned mining town in Liberia.
‘Uppland is a short documentary that offers an alternative filmic framework for analyzing and interpreting the architectural agency of colonialism.....The review committee lauded the filmmakers for their acute observations of the conflicts between our scholarly interpretations of architecture and the self-developed narratives of communities occupying the same space.’
SAH Film and Video Award Citation 2021
‘Uppland avoids most of the pitfalls of the narrated, exploitation documentary genre, its disembodied voice-over never becoming too authoritative, outraged, or self-indulgent—a rare achievement in this ever-expanding field.’
Africa is a Country
‘There’s a tension in Uppland between a visual method seeking to uncover some topographical essence and an editorial awareness of how easy it can be to overdo it..’
‘..unearths some of the material strata and spectral traces still present in the manufactured landscapes and architectures of the recent past’
Sight and Sound, BFI
RIBA Late: Raise the Roof, UK (June 2024)
Embassy of Sweden in Monrovia, Liberia (April 2022)
The Earth is a Tree Full of Poems Like Mushrooms, USA (September 2023)
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Sarajevo (December, 2021)
Seoul Architecture and Urbanism Biennale, South Korea (September 2019)
First Look Film Festival, USA (January 2019)
Open City Docs Film Festival, UK (September 2018)
Cork Film Festival, Ireland (November 2018)
Venice Architecture Biennale, Swamp Pavilion (June 2018)
Cinéma du Réel International Film Festival, France (March 2018)
‘Uppland is a short documentary that offers an alternative filmic framework for analyzing and interpreting the architectural agency of colonialism.....The review committee lauded the filmmakers for their acute observations of the conflicts between our scholarly interpretations of architecture and the self-developed narratives of communities occupying the same space.’
SAH Film and Video Award Citation 2021
‘Uppland avoids most of the pitfalls of the narrated, exploitation documentary genre, its disembodied voice-over never becoming too authoritative, outraged, or self-indulgent—a rare achievement in this ever-expanding field.’
Africa is a Country
‘There’s a tension in Uppland between a visual method seeking to uncover some topographical essence and an editorial awareness of how easy it can be to overdo it..’
‘..unearths some of the material strata and spectral traces still present in the manufactured landscapes and architectures of the recent past’
Sight and Sound, BFI
SELECTED SCREENINGS
RIBA Late: Raise the Roof, UK (June 2024)
Embassy of Sweden in Monrovia, Liberia (April 2022)
The Earth is a Tree Full of Poems Like Mushrooms, USA (September 2023)
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Sarajevo (December, 2021)
Seoul Architecture and Urbanism Biennale, South Korea (September 2019)
First Look Film Festival, USA (January 2019)
Open City Docs Film Festival, UK (September 2018)
Cork Film Festival, Ireland (November 2018)
Venice Architecture Biennale, Swamp Pavilion (June 2018)
Cinéma du Réel International Film Festival, France (March 2018)