Maybelle Peters Movies

  • 1990
    Nursery Rites

    Nursery Rites

    Nursery Rites

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    The hero now looks a bit like one of those stick figures by Giacometti.

    Nursery Rites
  • 1994
    Mama Lou

    Mama Lou

    Mama Lou

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    In between performances, a blues singer sits at her mirror and is visited by the spirit of her Grandmother who reminds her of stories from her youth...

    Mama Lou
  • 2020
    Ocean Going Figurine

    Ocean Going Figurine

    Ocean Going Figurine

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    "Ocean Going Figurine" is a single screen performance in which the artist records an assemblage of figurations. Screen recording software witnesses...

    Ocean Going Figurine
  • 2017
    I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow

    I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow

    I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow

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    “I don’t want to feel like it’s only me. I know it’s not only me, because there are others out there…” ‘I...

    I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow
  • 1991
    Black Skin White Masks

    Black Skin White Masks

    Black Skin White Masks

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    Animated film Black Skin White Masks was made in response to decolonial positions put forward by Frantz Fanon in his seminal works The Wretched Earth...

    Black Skin White Masks
  • 1990
    Lesson in History

    Lesson in History

    Lesson in History

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    Lesson in History was produced when Peters was a student at the West Surrey School of Art and Design. Having read The People Could Fly by Virginia...

    Lesson in History