Walking in the Wake

A black-and-white film after Christine Sharpe’s In the Wake On Blackness and Being (2016), Walking in the Wake was produced for the Estuary Festival (2021) in collaboration between the founding WritersMosaic board member Michael McMillan, Elsa James and Dubmorphology (Gary Stewart and Trevor Mathison).McMillan’s voiceover commentary meditates on the ebb and flow of the River Thames and the black presence in the English countryside, as we follow twelve black pilgrims walking along the Estuary passing sites of Empire.