Pan-African Cultural Encounters + Panel Discussion

Damilola Lemomu is an archivist and film programmer whose work engages with Pan-African film culture and explores archival materials as living infrastructures.

She is Project Curator and Archivist at the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive (JGPACA), co-organiser of Otherfield Film Festival, and Programme Adviser for the 2026 Sheffield Documentary Festival. She also teaches documentary filmmaking in alternative education contexts and is a member of the Rio Cinema Archive Working Group Advisory Board, supporting the preservation and activation of a community cinema archive in London.

Rhea Storr is a London-based artist and filmmaker working across moving image, installation, and sound. Her practice explores Black British identity, diaspora, and belonging, often focusing on everyday gestures, vernacular culture, and the complexities of visibility. Drawing on documentary, experimental, and essayistic forms, her work examines how Black life is performed, observed, and mediated through image and sound.

Storr’s films have been screened internationally at festivals and institutions including Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, and MoMA PS1. Her work has received numerous awards, including the Aesthetica Art Prize and the Louis Le Prince Experimental Film Prize, and continues to contribute to contemporary conversations around race, representation, and moving image practice.

Larry Achiampong (born 1984, London) is a British-born, Ghanaian artist who lives and works in Essex. His projects employ film, still imagery, aural and visual archives, live performance, objects, sound, and game design to engage with ideas surrounding class, gender, cross-cultural, and digital identity. With works that examine his communal and personal heritage, in particular, the intersection between popular culture and the residues of colonisation, Achiampong crate-digs the vaults of history. These investigations examine constructions of 'the self' through splicing the audible and visual materials of personal and interpersonal archives, offering multiple perspectives that reveal deeply entrenched inequalities. In 2025, Tate Publishing released Achiampong’s debut monograph, If It Don’t Exist, Build It. He has had recent solo exhibitions at venues including Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, UK, 2024; a touring exhibition in the UK at Turner Contemporary in Margate, MK Gallery in Milton Keynes, and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, 2022–23; and PHI, Montreal, 2021. His work has also been commissioned by Art on the Underground, London, 2022; Liverpool Biennial, 2021; and The Line, London, 2020. Achiampong received the Stanley Picker Fellowship in 2020 and the Paul Hamlyn Award in 2019.