"In 2016 I finished the short film She Was a Full Body Speaker. It combines found footage from my personal archive and from Liverpool-based filmmaker Sandi Hughes’s Rewind Fast Forward archive. It explores cycles of trauma, mourning, and celebration through an investigation into spaces of sociality past, present, and still to come. Layers of speech and ambient sound repeat and reverberate over the archival images: the echo as affective encounter. The video considers the voice as index of experience, whilst exploring experience as evidence. Darkness, also, is so abundant in this work. Suspended in the time of the loop you are held in “the zone” of comfort, refuge, and release.

Here, the speaker body is the anchor that grounds the looping images in the present moment. In life—in the club, for example—it’s a beacon as well: an object that aids in being found and finding yourself. At other times it is an antidote to queer Black loneliness and melancholy—a home, a confidant, a friend. " Read here.