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Dear Othermother (behind-the-scenes images), dir. Amber Akaunu, UK, 2025. Photographer: Kolade T Ladipo.
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Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985 - 2025
Amber Akaunu's new film Dear Othermother, commissioned by Liverpool Biennial 2025, celebrates a deeply personal tale of friendship, single motherhood and alternative, matriarchal community networks in Liverpool 8, one of the oldest Black communities in the UK.
Through letter writing, conversations and retrospective walks, Amber delves into her childhood, as the daughter of a single mother, contextualising her experiences with single mothers today.
This one-off screening will also include an opportunity for the audience to ask Amber questions at the end and receive a print zine to write their own letter to their othermother.
Amber Akaunu's new film Dear Othermother, commissioned by Liverpool Biennial 2025, celebrates a deeply personal tale of friendship, single motherhood and alternative, matriarchal community networks in Liverpool 8, one of the oldest Black communities in the UK.
Through letter writing, conversations and retrospective walks, Amber delves into her childhood, as the daughter of a single mother, contextualising her experiences with single mothers today.
This one-off screening will also include an opportunity for the audience to ask Amber questions at the end and receive a print zine to write their own letter to their othermother.
Bio
Amber Akaunu is a Liverpool-born Nigerian/German artist and filmmaker. Akaunu's creative practice combines cinema and art, which she uses as tools to document and imagine Black British regional stories. She explores concepts surrounding race and identity through her ancestral history and perspective using photography, film, pencil and illustration to present her findings. Her research-informed films often explore Liverpool's international links both personally and historically.
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07:00 pm
Wed, 20 Aug 2025
Cinema 1
£13 full price
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