The Fist

Shot on 35mm film The Fist is an intimate portrait of a modernist style factory the first Guinness brewery built outside of Ireland and the UK located in Nigeria 12 miles from the centre of Lagos on the Ikeja Industrial Estate Completed in 1962 in the wake of Nigerias independence from Britain the factory is a site where interwoven histories of industrialisation and labour are brought into focus Observing the comings and goings of workers and the factorys assembly and packing lines Akingbade perceptively highlights the deeprooted politics embedded in the beverages production