Michelle Williams Gamaker works with moving image, performance and installation. Her practice is often in dialogue with film history, particularly Hollywood and British studio films. By restaging scenes to reveal their politically problematic, imperialist roots; her work is a form of fictional activism to recast characters originally played bywhite actors with people of colour. She combines scriptwriting, workshopping with actors, revisiting analogue SFX and producing props to create intricately staged films. Williams Gamaker is shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2020 and is also recipient of the Stuart Croft Moving Image Award 2020 for
The Bang Straws (2021).
