Hope Strickland is an artist-filmmaker and researcher from Manchester. I’ll Be Back! begins and ends with the story of the rebel slave Francois Mackandal who was burned at the stake in 1758 for both his crimes and his radical powers of metamorphosis. Filmed in archives and museums across the UK, the work surveys a series of collections that hold objects of colonial violence. Shifting between digital, 16mm and archival formats, I’ll Be Back! interrogates institutional collecting practices and reconsiders the spaces between myth, history and machinations of power. It questions how to exist beyond the borders, categories and constraints that these systems create and enforce.