Film
Memory Room 451
1996 · 25m · Science Fiction · Documentary
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Overview
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.
Crew
- John AkomfrahDirector
Details
- Release date
- January 1, 1996
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 25m
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Documentary
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