When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Black Man
A double-screen work on violence and freedom. On one screen the ‘alphabet of violence’. The second screen’s function is to evoke potential, possibility, aspirations and ambitions of a future where the value of the black man in society is revitalised through a lexicon of freedom; he runs towards his freedom.
Also in this combined programme
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Fluid Frontiers
Powerful final part in the series of films in which Asili studies his relationship to the African diaspora. Will be screened both as part of Bright Fu
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Her Name in My Mouth
A reinvocation of the Aba Women’s War, the 1929 anti-colonial uprising in Nigeria, through embodiment, gesture and the archive.
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Unearthing. In Conversation
In an empty theatre, artist Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński ‘dissects’ a series of photographs Austrian ethnographer Paul Schebesta took in t
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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 memor
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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
- Austria, South Africa
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 10"
- Medium/Format
- File
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