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.
- Director
- Isaac Julien
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2000
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2004
- Length
- 7'
- Medium
- Betacam SP PAL
- Sales
- Victoria Miro Gallery