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works*  
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ani & sumin






               
 pictured: Caroline Denise as ani





bereft and isolated, ani feels her soul break. she's done. done with holding grace
in the face of violence.
sumin is with her, always.
after all this time - only dusk will know if
ani can unfold to meet
sumin’s alchemising presence again.







video single channel, dyptych split screen



photos: video stills, Daniel Hughes 








  behind the scenes:


+ animus & anima Jungian psycology

+ becoming a survivor

+ Grace Jones

+ Erykah Badu ‘Window Seat’ music video

+ two-spirit

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director
    writer    







screenings


coming up

Black Alphabet Film Fetsival
Chicago & Cincinatti
2026


Grrl Haus Cinema,
Neukölln Beach
2025



Gallery im Körner Park
2023



Tramway TV
2021



  







 credits


ani & sumin
Caroline Denise


photographer & editor
Daniel Hughes


sound
Ludovic Barrier


MU/Hair & costume
Nima Séne



supported by
Starter / Engine Room residency
Anna Hodgart
National Theatre of Scotland


with speacial thanks to:

Laura Fisher

The Arlington











nima aida séne is a process-driven           

and site-responsive             
               
artist working with world-building,              

directing, devising, performance,                

text, and songwriting.                 

they cultivate “auditory and visual excellence”*                

working with video, performance, music,               

poetry, installation and set design.           
       
informed by global majority perspectives,           

their practice engages with subjects such as             

science, popular culture,               

and autofictional anecdotes.                

core themes include belonging within alienation,                 
             
disquieting familiarity,                 

and solace in the unfamiliar, traversing                 

joy and grief through tragicomic (sur)realities              
           
             (un)heard, (un)seen, (un)known.          







  * Greater Manchester Reviewer              
        on the work BEIGE B*TCH                







                    








    




   




the afro-futuristic space-church themed performance party

live sonic performance and reading for Brownton Abbey  

     
backing track composed and produced by:

Hannah Catherine Jones



Southbank Centre, Take Me Somewhere  
2021 & 2019

photo: Tiu Makkonen
                              
                         






 

  lead artist  
 vocalist-performer
concept




screenings

ScreenDance Festival
2025

ANTI Fest
2024

  Southbank Centre
2022

Horizon Showcase
2021


                               
 
credits

bead sound hair & costume design
Sabrina Henry

director & editor
Mathew Arthur Williams

vocalist-performer
Paix

set assistance
Christian Noelle Charles

catering
Jordan Pilling

commissioned by
Brownton Abbey
Marlborough Productions


with special thanks to

Mele Broomes










video and sonic meditation 
              

Brownton Abbey Film collection  

with sound composition by:  
Mathew Arthur Williams                                    
                 
photo: still from video, Mathew Arthur Williams    

                

  behind the scenes:


+ Jamaica Kincaid “Blackness” short story from      
  the book: “At The Bottom of the River”        


+ Sun Ra “There Is No Day”      


+ Hannah Catherine Jones “The Opera Show”
  “The Oweds”    


+ Chanda Prescod-Weinstein “The Disordered Cosmos”  


+ moving in darkness
 
                           
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+


+







“auf den weg zu mir /
  auf den weg zu dir”  





  a commemoration to May, Ibu, Beldina      
and all who’s names we know and do not know  



                                           
                                                   
site-responsive Hochzeitssaal  



 
gatherings  

               Sophiensaele  
                   12, 13, 14, 15 February  
2022  

                *Sopheinsaele’s  
                first global majority (BIPoC) only  
                gathering held on the 14th February 2022  

                                       
             a production by  
             Nima Séne co-produced with  
              Sophiensaele funded by the  
             Senat for Culture and Europe  





                 
photo:  Mayra Wallraff


                         












                   
   
directing
devising
set design
concept





installation
*link in English






light  sound  performance



















 

May Ayim    
poem excerpt    
    sein oder nichtsein        
to be or not to be    



credits  

                   
ritual / performance
Virginnia Krämer

lighting 
Raquel Rosildette

sound composition
Sea Novaa

movement & vocal coaching
Valerie Renay

producer & dramaturgical support
Agnieszka Habrashka

casting & producer
Céline Rodriguez

programmer & producer      
Prof. Dr. Joy Kristin Kalu  


   behind the scenes:          


+ “Ultrasanity. Über Wahnsinn, Hygiene,            
  Anti-Psychiatrie und Wiederstand”-          
  Savvy Contemporary            
  the Laboratory of Form-Ideas            


+ “The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying”            
  < the rainbow body chapter            


+ “Blues Legacies and Black Feminism”              
   Angela Y. Davis


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Dear Europe
/
moving
through shadows





pictured is Ifi Ude holding her arms with open palms out to the audience as she sings ‘Warszawo ma’.   photo:  Drew Farrell

video - 3 channels
&
site-responsive
live music performance


SWG3
studio warehouse studios
Glasgow, 2019


 
pictured here is a drawing of Ezili Dantor on one screen.  3 screens are around the audience.   photo:  Drew Farrell


















A theme by
Adura Onashile to explore blackness in Poland with a connection to Scotland for the National Theatre of Scotland’s Dear Europe project in response to Brexit.
I was invited by Adura Onashile as a maternity cover for Onashile as lead artist.
I invited filmmaker collaborator
Daniel Hughes on a four month process culminated into an exhilirating
3 channel video work with a site-responsive live music performance starring the artist, musician and composer Ifi Ude. Paul Robeson defining himself as a world citizen became our connecting red thread through the cultural and historical aspects of this project.
Dominika Jarzynska shared her conditioning and cultural upbringing  as a Polish Scotland-based acting student and translated the interviews we brought back from Warsaw.
To read a snippet more,
go to process and scroll down.



 behind the scenes & on 3 screens:



+ Ifi Ude
  contact through
  Song of the Goat Theatre


+ August Agbola O’Browne


+ Paul Robeson Interview (1958) 
  with Elsa Knight Thompson


+ Haitian Revolution -
  Polish connected history
  ex. Ezili Dantor & Lady Częstochowa


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video - 3 channel      



concept(form)    
  lead artist      
directing    
research    




credits    


starring    
Ifi Ude    


concept(theme)    
Adura Onashile     
 

co-research, co-editor, DoP  
& production manager(Warsaw)    
Daniel Hughes    


interview & translation      
Dominika Jarzynska      


featuring      
Natalia Poniatowska    


commisisoned & produced by        
 National Theatre of Scotland        


       


 

with special thanks to      

Chichi Ude      

Marianne Maxwell      

Warsaw Uprising Museum      

and many more      



    press            
             
the guardian      

 the national        
       






BEIGE B*TCH















      trailer and photos: Daniel Hughes





















Invited into the luxurious world of self-made icon Beige B*tch, the audience take their seats and tune in as the latest audience of
Beige Nation TV.
Star and host, BB, scrolls through the saturated reality of their
all beige everything world.
In a cultural blitzkrieg of artisan anecdotes, intimate interviews and bespoke adverts, Beige B*tch poses pointed questions(...)



     

shows

Contact at Z-Arts Manchester
2018
prologue artist:
mandla


Take Me Somewhere Glasgow
2019
prologue artist
TAAHLIAH


Friscati Amsterdam
2019
prologue artist
Princess Bangura


Sophiensaele Berlin/online
2020
prologue artist
GodXXX Noirphiles



screenings

David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
2022

Somerset House, London
2021

Z-Arts, Manchester
2021

Sophiensaele, Berlin/online
2020


music
performance iterations
Scotland:
Kelburn Garden Party
Eden music festival
Glasgow School of Art summer festival
The Vic, Glasgow School of Art
London:
Camden Peoples Theatre





blackouts  

video            
 poetry-visualiser

credis

poetry & performance
Nima Séne

writing;BeigeB*tch sci-fi backstory
Ama Josephine Budge

producer
Laura Fisher

DoP & editing
Daniel Hughes





 behind the scenes:


+ colourism


+ desertification


+ Amalgamation Schemes
  Antiblackness and the Critique of
  Multiracialism by Jared Sexton


+ “Undone; Blackness in Performance”
   HZT lecture by Derrais Carter        

+ Samuel Beckett “Not I”


+ Drag / Persona & Alter Ego


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director        
 performer/actor        
writer        
set design(stage)      
video edit        
curation        




photo: Daniel Hughes, 2018                  



credits


producer
Laura Fisher

research mentor
Derrais Carter

costume
Sabrina Henry

featuring
jee chan, Fran.K / Frankie Mulholland
James Primer and Daniel Hughes

DoP, edit (trailer & video technical cut)
maketing materials
production manager(video & Frascati)  
Daniel Hughes

set design (video)
Josephine Lalande

sound design (video & live show) 
Alicia Matthews

lighting design
Jazz Hutsby

sound recording (video)
Luduvic Barrier

make up (video)
Venus Von Vorstadt

sound design (video theme tune)
Alex MacKay


Commissioned by
Contact
Live Art UK & Diverse Actions

supported by
Creative Scotland, The Work Room,
National Theatre of Scotland, Tramway, 
BUZZCUT, Platform,
Take Me Somewhere



 








   Diverse Actions & Live Art UK, Manchester 2021      









            David Dale Gallery, Glasgow 2022   



 












      background Image:  Mayra Walraff