Made when Julien was part of the British film-making collective Sankofa,’Territories’ focuses on the annual event of Carnival, the festival of Caribbean music and dance which takes over the streets of West London each year. As much about media images of Carnival as it is about the event’s history, the film explores the media stereotyping and misrepresentation of British black culture that attaches to these images. A deconstructive documentary which pits commentary against image (drawn from a range of documentary and archive sources), ‘Territories’ refuses any settled, consensual representation of Black experience in its search for ‘a his-story, a her-story of cultural forms specific to Black people’.
Also in this combined programme
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Paradise Omeros
Specially edited single-screen version of the installation. See the description there. -
Vagabondia
Filmed in the Sir John Soane museum in London, ‘Vagabondia’ is a film in which curation meets choreography. A black female conservator imagines the buried… -
This is not an AIDS Advertisement
In its stylish and erotic imagery, ‘This is Not an AIDS Ad’ might be seen as having been a riposte to the Puritanism of the…
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 1984
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2004
- Length
- 25'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
