Memory Room 451
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.
Release date
01/01/1996
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The Man Who Saved LKY
Se Siembran Flores
František Hrubín
Was bleibt | Šta ostaje | What Remains / Re-visited
Saying No
No seré la vida de mi recuerdo
Controller
Opa sein Berlin
Spiral to the Center
9000 Laps
Malembe
Jiíbie
idizwadidiz
Aelita
Fires of Kuwait
Cosmo
Entre ciel et terre
Push-kin
Football Royal