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Mixed Messages
Filmmaker Rhea Storr, who won the 2020 Aesthetica Art Prize, uses the concept of carnival to evoke the contrasts and conflicts bound up within one version of modern British-Caribbean identity.
“It is really quite impossible to be affirmative about anything which one refuses to question.” This quote, from James Baldwin’s
Notes of a Native Son, serves as a kind of epigram to Rhea Storr’s 2017 film
Junkanoo Talk. Suitably enough, it epitomises the mixture of affection and scrutiny with which Storr’s work explores black and mixed-race British-Caribbean identity, in particular through the tradition of Junkanoo, a type of costumed street carnival with Bahamian roots. ....

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