London Migration Film Festival X Migrating Sounds

Just like flavours and smells, sounds deeply connect us to the values, traditions and identities of home, migrating through bodies and borders, across time and space. For diasporic communities, combining music with video has become a powerful tool for preserving their homeland’s musical traditions and negotiating their sense of belonging, while also adapting to new technologies and modes of exchange. Music becomes an artefact of migration.

Event hosted at Ridley Road Social Club in the celebration of music clips: from Scopitones, to cable TV and Youtube to Instagram reels and TikTok. This event featured an interactive installation open throughout the day, alongside a film programme, roundtable discussion and a DJ set to cap off the night.

Produced by Louise Gholam and Isabella Barkett, in partnership with ill3ab

Guests:
- Zeina Salem, Director & Visual Artist
- Sara Ibrahim, Journalist and Manager
- Marek Razzouk, Manager and Music Label Director
- Cheb Mimo, DJ and Producer
- Olivia Melkonian, DJ and Sound Artist