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 stories and the hidden histories within the museum’s cornucopia of colonial plunder. Filmed with fluid camera movements and a sensuous attention to lighting-camera work, Julien makes of the museum a world of shadows, mirrors and frames-within-frames where the statues also dream and the vagabond spirit of colonialism’s repressed memory comes dancing, jerkily, back to life.
Also in this combined programme
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Paradise Omeros
Specially edited single-screen version of the installation. See the description there. -
Territories
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… -
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
- 2000
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2004
- Length
- 7'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
