‘A river holds a perfect memory’ meanders gently across waterways in Jamaica, through leisure activities such as rafting on the Martha Brae River and a night-time boat trip in Falmouth’s bioluminescent Lagoon. In the UK, archival footage tracks industrial impact upon the landscape in Northern England – as water becomes a resource and a reservoir is constructed in Rochdale. Hope Pearl Strickland is an artist-filmmaker from Manchester, UK, working with experimental and documentary-based modes. Their films move across archival, 16mm and digital practices, with a particular focus on labour migration, diasporic longing and resource extraction.