Beginning at the industrial revolution of the ‘great north’, Jenn Nkiru draws lines between peoples, cities, countries, buildings, movements, bodies and spaces(s) using a mixture of archive materials and new footage. There is little stillness as we are pushed and pulled through Black histories and communities across the city of Manchester and beyond. Nkiru has termed this filmmaking process “cosmic archeology”, and it is grounded in Afro-surrealism, experimental film and the Black arts movement.
– Tomiwa Folorunso
Also in this combined programme
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Landscapes of Longing
An associative collage that traces generational echoes of migration through photographs, language, maps and corporality. -
Bisagras
Luis Arnías traces his ancestry: imagining the perilous journey of enslaved African people to America.
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2024
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2025
- Length
- 52'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
