“Burkitt” – documentary film about the remarkable life of Dr Denis Burkitt

A creative documentary exploring the life of Irish surgeon Denis Burkitt, who discovered Burkitt's lymphoma, as told by a survivor of this cancer. First-time filmmaker, Éanna Mac Cana, creates a unique experience combining his personal recordings as an inpatient being treated for Burkitt's lymphoma with Denis Burkitt's own astonishing archive of photographs and films from sub-Saharan Africa, and footage from the Medical Sciences Video Archive held at Oxford Brookes University.

Through weaving together the patterns, parallels and chance events, this remarkable film examines the nonlinear impact of trauma, colonialism and the ethics of medical work through an artistic lens.

After the screening of the documentary, there will be a Q&A session with the filmmaker.