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Mixed Messages Filmmaker Rhea Storr, who won the 2020 Aesthetica Art Prize, uses the concept of carnival to evoke the contrasts and conflicts bound up within one version of modern British-Caribbean identity. “It is really quite impossible to be affirmative about anything which one refuses to question.” This quote, from James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son, serves as a kind of epigram to Rhea Storr’s 2017 film Junkanoo Talk. Suitably enough, it epitomises the mixture of af...