Artist, yogi, doula and farmer’s apprentice, Tabita Rezaire uses the moving image to draw a path towards decolonising bodies and minds, looking closely at the parallel connections we establish between the natural and digital worlds.

Batalha presents the installation Premium Connect in the Sala-Filme. Rezaire begins her film with the revelatory scene in The Matrix in which the machines’ exploitation of human beings is explained, using this as a platform on which to think about questions related to colonial exploitation. The notion of an imposed normative truth that rewrites cultural legacies finds an echo in superimposed symbols of digital networks next to artefacts and fortune telling methods of mystic traditions in Africa, such as the Ifá used by the Yoruba people.

This film intersects with ‘The Politics of Sci-Fi’ programme and is accompanied by a display of the graphical compositions Bowdown – inner fire series (2018) and Pimp your brain (2017).