Twilight City

This dreamlike, essayist documentary acquires sharp contours thanks to its many-layered form and theme. A letter from a daughter to her mother, who re-emigrated yet considers returning to London, forms the fictional thread through the richly variegated visual material of this documentary. The elements that give form and significance to the city and its inhabitants are linked, not only in the reflections of the daughter, who is a researcher, but also in those of British cultural critics and activists Homi Bhabha, Paul Gilroy and Gail Lewis. Familiar, topical developments and questions resonate in the cultural, political and economic reflections.
Filmmaker Reece Auguiste, who now lives in the United States, is co-founder of the famous British Black Audio Film Collective, which also includes John Akomfrah. June Givanni, the former head of the (now abolished) African Caribbean Unit of the British Film Institute, puts Twilight City in a film-historical context. Screens together with Baldwin’s Nigger.

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