The film revisions the Aba Women’s War, the first major anti-colonial uprisings in Nigeria, using embodiment, gesture and the archive. The film is structured around the repurposing of archival films from the British propaganda arm cut against a gestural evocation of the women’s testimonies. (Onyeka Igwe)
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Fluid Frontiers
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Unearthing. In Conversation
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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Black Man
An alphabet of violence and freedom featuring rhythmic images provides a strong vocabulary for critiquing representations of black bodies.
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Mugabo
A woman returns to her fatherland Rwanda after 20 years. An impressive journey to a place that previously consisted of other people’s me
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Street 66
Documentary about Ghanaian housing activist Dora Boatemah and the Angell Town community in Brixton, London fighting for better housing conditions.<
Film details
- Country of production
- UK
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 6"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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