Black to Techno
Techno, a futuristic sound falling into the legacy of Black music, but not often celebrated as such. Featuring cameos from Hip-Hop, Funk, Soul, Detroit and Berlin.
20'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2020
The visual reference point for the video comes from Nkiru's parents' Ikwerre tribe. In their Oboni ceremony, they channel the spirit through repetition, instrumentation and movement, going deeper with each tone until it becomes transcendent. Nkiru gives the women in the video the choreography and codes to also go deeper into that spirit-space.
IFFR 2020
- 9'
- United Kingdom
- 2018
- Director
- Jenn Nkiru
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 9'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Anna Smith
- Production Company
- Iconoclast
- Sales
- Banch Abegaze
- Cinematography
- Benoit Soler
- Editor
- Kit Wells
- Production Design
- Nathan Parker
- Music
- Kamasi Washington
- Cast
- Summer Pearl, Myriam Sow, Nadia Adu Gyamei
Also in this combined programme
Guisado on Sunset
Missed connection regret at that one late-night spot. The kind you can't quite remember right, until it starts to look like something else.
4'
USA
IFFR 2020
Random Acts of Flyness: They Won’t Go When I Go (Director’s Cut)
A late-night series exploring evergreen cultural idioms such as patriarchy, white supremacy and sensuality from a new, thought-provoking perspective.
54'
USA
IFFR 2020
- Director
- Jenn Nkiru
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 9'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Anna Smith
- Production Company
- Iconoclast
- Sales
- Banch Abegaze
- Cinematography
- Benoit Soler
- Editor
- Kit Wells
- Production Design
- Nathan Parker
- Music
- Kamasi Washington
- Cast
- Summer Pearl, Myriam Sow, Nadia Adu Gyamei
Programme IFFR 2020
Synergetic
This programme brings together work by film and art collectives that decentralise the mainstream narrative by providing us with alternative histories, presenting other ways of working and other ways of seeing.
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An adventurous performance where analogue projectors and film reels meet with amplified video signals.
45'
IFFR 2020
Armonia
Documentary about The Ummah Chroma made by alumni from the Ghetto Film School, making their debut as a collective with this film.
9'
USA
IFFR 2020
AS TOLD TO G/D THYSELF
The cosmic journey of sacred youth, during which pain, pleasure and sublimation are non-negotiable.
22'
USA
IFFR 2020