DIGITAL RESIDENT
Brittney Sankofa

december 2022

Britt Sankofa is a filmmaker and installation artist from Washington, DC whose mission is to carry on the storytelling tradition of her African American heritage with non-traditional mediums, particularly film and video art. Using original, archival sounds and footage, Sankofa pieces together non-linear narratives of multiple genres, including documentary, surrealism, animation, and live performance. Content often deals with family and cultural histories, societal expectations of gender, and the media’s impact on identity. Her collage-style approach to filmmaking is heavily inspired by quilting arts, another important format of the Black storytelling tradition.

Sankofa’s work has been featured at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Afrikana Film Festival, Virginia Film Festival, Hamiltonian Artists Gallery, and ARoS Art Museum in Aarhus, Denmark.