Jyoti Mistry

The legacy of the Swedish colonisation of the Sámi people as an ever-perpetuating cycle of forced assimilation, cultural oppression, and extractivist exploitation.

Through archival film footage, animation and spoken word poetry an experience of structural violence against women is exposed.

Three films by Jyoti Mistry – When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Black Man (2017), Cause of Death (2020), and Loving In Between (2023).

Investigating the gruesome murder of a cabinet minister's daughter, a special investigator and a local police detective find themselves knee-deep in political corruption and conspiracy, in this sizzling noir thriller set in post-apartheid South Africa.

A double-screen work on violence and freedom. On one screen the ‘alphabet of violence’. The second screen's function is to evoke potential, possibility, aspirations and ambitions of a future where the value of the black man in society is revitalised through a lexicon of freedom; he runs towards his freedom.

Between birth and death, is the power to love and live. Political rules, religious orders, social norms and cultural taboos control who we love and how we love. The right to love, is controlled and regulated by how we live. But the erotic has the power to emancipate. With spoken word and archive sources, love is unboxed from categories in queer expression and a celebration of eros as the power to change our attitudes to life and to allow others to live their lives without judgment or prejudice.