Soundscapes

180 Strand has a show featuring artist collaboration commissions from the Vinyl Factory. The stand out for me was a short film called Ijó by Gabriel Moses. Beautiful very grainy atmospheric images grain, mostly in black and white, with a mesmerizing sound track of voices instruments with “ambient location sound” but placed sonically at a distance. The sound held the work together.

The film followed some young ballet dancers in Lagos. The director said the film was inspired by old black and white family photos and artists such as American Gordon Parks and Malian photographer Malick Sibibé