Joy Gregory Selects: Film Programme

Film Programme
Joy Gregory Selects… 

Joy Gregory Selects… is a film programme curated by the artist to accompany her exhibition ‘Catching Flies with Honey’. Bringing together works that span documentary, fiction and essay film, Gregory’s selection reflects longstanding concerns in her practice with identity, intimacy, and histories of representation. The programme moves across geographies and generations, from personal observation to collective history.

Programme

Radiola de Promessa (2025), Gê Viana, 13m 07s
11:15am

In this lyrical short work, Viana reflects on faith, memory and Afro-Brazilian cultural traditions.

Secrets and Lies (1996), Dir. Mike Leigh, 2h 22m
11:30am

Leigh’s powerful social drama centres on a Black British woman’s search for her birth mother, unfolding into a complex portrait of family, race and class in late twentieth-century Britain.

From the Window of My Room (2004), Cao Guimarães, 5m 21s
13:55 / 18:20*

Filmed from the artist’s apartment window, this poetic essay film is a meditation  on the quiet intimacy of observation.

Mississippi Masala (1991), Dir. Mira Nair, 1h 58m
14:05 / 18:30*

Set in the American South, Nair’s landmark film traces an interracial love story shaped by migration, displacement and the afterlives of colonialism.

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2024), Dir. Raoul Peck, 1h 46m
16:05

Peck’s documentary revisits the life and work of South African photographer Ernest Cole, whose images exposed the brutal realities of apartheid.

*Thursday evenings only