NIGHT SHIFT

A programme of dance films, linked to club and rave culture, historically and politically.

I. MATT STOKES / LONG AFTER TONIGHT / 2005, 6:45

Matt Stokes’s Long after Tonight is a tribute to the British northern soul scene of the 1970s, filmed in one of the original locations, a church in Dundee, Scotland, where weekly dance events took place.

II. MARK LECKEY / FIORUCCI MADE ME HARDCORE / 1999, 15:00

Leckey’s video essay Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore is a compilation of found footage from British dance floors which chronicles Britain’s underground club scene, from Northern Soul in the 1970s to the Rave scene of the early 1990s.

III. CECILIA BENGOLEA & JEREMY DELLER  / BOMBOM’S DREAM / 2016, 12:47

Bombom’s Dream follows the fantastic adventures of the Japanese dancer Bombom as she travels to Jamaica to compete in a local dancehall contest.

IV. CECILIA BENGOLEA / LIGHTNING DANCE / 2018 / 06:03

Lightning Dance features Craig Black Eagle, Oshane Overload-Skankaz and their respective teams. Their movements refer to popular Jamaican dancehall which Cecilia Bengolea sees as infused with magical healing powers.

V. CRYSTELLE OYIRI / COLLECTIVE AMNESIA: CALL AND RESPONSE / 2019, 15:00

Collective Amnesia: call and response celebrates the forgotten history of logobi, an urban Afro-French dance from the mid-00s merging hardcore techno and coupé décalé. 

VI.  LUNA MAHOUX / TIK TOK OF LOGOBI / 2022, 13:24

In her work Luna Mahoux often draws upon the economy of poor images to fight against capitalist assimilative gluttony in a cybernetic world. In this video she presents a selection of Tik Tok video excerpts with a variety of homemade Logobi dance routines.

VII. YAREMA MALASHCHUK & ROMAN HIMEY / DOCUMENTING CXEMA / 2019, 09:00

Malashchuk and Himey documented Cxema, the biggest rave in Ukraine, born after the revolution in 2013-2014. The party offered the new generation a chance to reclaim the city, to explore it and to express themselves.

VIII. DAN HALTER / UNTITLED (ZIMBABWEAN QUEEN OF RAVE) / 2005, 03:32

Opponents of the apartheid in South Africa used music and dance to make their voice heard and motivate fellow demonstrators to keep protesting against discrimination and segregation. Dan Halter’s video uses archive material to demonstrates one of the activists tactics: a war dance called toyi-toyi.