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Memory Room 451

01/01/1996

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0hr 25min

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Science Fiction

,Documentary

STORY

The subject matter of Memory Room 451 is the cultural and historical significance of 20th-century hairstyles – the Afro, the conk, dreadlocks – in Black communities on both sides of the Atlantic. Akomfrah has disguised this exploration as a science fiction story – in the manner of the groundbreaking writers profiled in The Last Angel of History – while providing a bravura display of the aesthetics of video art in the 1990s. The tale of visitors from the future who gather dreams from unwitting subjects in order to construct a history of the Black diaspora both defamiliarizes Akomfrah’s ongoing project and points to the danger that extracting history from memory can be a kind of expropriation.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

    Director

  • John Akomfrah

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Black Audio Film Collective

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

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