A meditation and exploration into the ‘laws of freedom’. Through poetry, an art form with its own relationship to freedom and control, the work investigates the space of diaspora, a place where forgetting, remembering and reimagining act as architectural devices in the urban planning of the diasporic psyche.

An aural-visual-textual-oral tapestry that uses performance, rhythm and erasure as structuring devices, a ‘call to arms’ for sonic way finders who seek Carnival’s joyous and redemptive liberation.

Those With Walls for Windows (2023), exhibited at the Venice Biennale (Arsenale) until November 2023.

Written & Directed by Rhael ‘LionHeart’ Cape

Supported by 180 Studios, African Future’s Institute, InDetail Studios, British Film Institute (BFI), A-COLD-WALL*

Archival Footage Usage: © Crown / Courtesy of the BFI NationalArchive’ (Proud City A Plan for London); ‘© Arts Council England / Courtesy of the BFI National Archive’ (Grove Music)

...if architecture doesn’t serve feelings,
then it serves a psychosis.
— LionHeart

Photography courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia for the 18th International Architecture Exhibition.