Indi
You can view Billy’s film Indi at his solo exhibition [TRAVELLER, YOUR FOOTPRINTS] which is being held at the NAE, Nottingham. The exhibition is a series of works, which also includes The Exiles (2019 – present) photo series. More information can be found here.
An artist film based on a novella I penned in 2017 inspired by the story of the first great hope of a professional British Asian footballer. After a long development period alongside Flamin’, my boldest artist film to date emerged, as we enter he inner worlds of mother and son’s relationship, both in the last stretches of life - for Indi, it’s metaphoric, the death of a dream, and for his Mother, it’s actual as she’s summoned into the afterlife by Sadar, a stalker of souls on Black Country canals.
In the work we experience Indi’s loving relationship with his seamstress Mum; domestic scenes and rich VFX scenes; we witness an inbetween world of imagination, where people wait to be taken by the Sardar, to journey into the next life; and much more.
Photos from the current exhibition at the NAE in Nottingham where Indi is being shown.
Photo by Tom Morley
Above images taken by Tom Morley. Photos from the [TRAVELLER, YOUR FOOTPRINTS] exhibition at the NAE, Nottingham.
Indi (2022): commissioned by FLAMIN Productions through Film London Artists' Moving Image Network and New Art Exchange. With funding from Arts Council, England.
