Fragments Of Belonging
An Essay Filma
Fragments of Belonging is a poetic essay film exploring memory, migration, identity, and belonging through painting, poetry, documentary footage, and personal reflection.
Moving between Whitehaven and Ghana's Cape Coast region, the film reflects on how landscapes hold traces of history, movement, and lived experience across generations. Through harbour walls, coastal paths, historic spaces, sketchbooks, and spoken reflection, the work considers how places carry memory long after people have moved on.
Combining cinematic imagery with painting and spoken reflection, the film blends documentary and visual art to create a reflective exploration of home, ancestry, and connection. Rather than presenting a conventional historical narrative, Fragments of Belonging approaches history through atmosphere, memory, gesture, and lived experience.
Originally developed alongside a wider painting and commiuntiy engagement project, the film brings together drone footage, observational filming, sketchbook practice, poetry, and on-location painting into a single cinematic piece.
Moving between Whitehaven and Ghana's Cape Coast region, the film reflects on how landscapes hold traces of history, movement, and lived experience across generations. Through harbour walls, coastal paths, historic spaces, sketchbooks, and spoken reflection, the work considers how places carry memory long after people have moved on.
Combining cinematic imagery with painting and spoken reflection, the film blends documentary and visual art to create a reflective exploration of home, ancestry, and connection. Rather than presenting a conventional historical narrative, Fragments of Belonging approaches history through atmosphere, memory, gesture, and lived experience.
Originally developed alongside a wider painting and commiuntiy engagement project, the film brings together drone footage, observational filming, sketchbook practice, poetry, and on-location painting into a single cinematic piece.
Official Trailer
Runtime: 26mins
Country: United Kingdom / Ghana
Genre: Essay Film / Documentary / Experimental
Language: English
Director: Anne Blankson-Hemans
Country: United Kingdom / Ghana
Genre: Essay Film / Documentary / Experimental
Language: English
Director: Anne Blankson-Hemans