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Revolutionary Reveries: Four Films by the Sankofa Film and Video Collective

Revolutionary Reveries: Four Films by the Sankofa Film and Video Collective

4 Episodes

Founded by Martina Attille, Maureen Blackwood, Robert Crusz, Isaac Julien and Nadine Marsh-Edwards in London in 1983, the Sankofa Film and Video Collective sought to give expression to the complexities of Black British identity in an era of turbulent social and racial strife. Encompassing documentary, narrative, and avant-garde practices, the aesthetically innovative, politically engaged cinema that Sankofa produced—including several acclaimed shorts as well as Blackwood and Julien’s landmark feature THE PASSION OF REMEMBRANCE—offered an urgent new perspective on race, gender, sexuality, and British culture and history that radically subverted the white, Eurocentric gaze.

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Revolutionary Reveries: Four Films by the Sankofa Film and Video Collective

4 Episodes

  • The Passion of Remembrance
    1:23:01
    The Passion of Remembrance
    Episode 1

    The Passion of Remembrance

    Episode 1

    Directed by Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien • 1986 • United Kingdom
    Starring Anni Domingo, Joseph Charles, Carlton Chance

    One of the major works of the revolutionary Sankofa Film and Video Collective, this radically innovative film explores issues of Black British culture, gender, and sexuali...

  • Dreaming Rivers
    32:50
    Dreaming Rivers
    Episode 2

    Dreaming Rivers

    Episode 2

    Directed by Martina Attille • 1988 • United Kingdom
    Starring Corinne Skinner-Carter, Stefan Kalipha, Angela Wynter

    From the groundbreaking Sankofa Film and Video Collective comes this bittersweet and nostalgic short drama illustrating the spirit of modern families touched by the experience of mi...

  • Perfect Image?
    31:03
    Perfect Image?
    Episode 3

    Perfect Image?

    Episode 3

    Directed by Maureen Blackwood • 1988 • United Kingdom
    Starring Amanda Symonds, Irma Inniss

    Bright and imaginative in its approach to its subject, PERFECT IMAGE? exposes stereotypical images of Black women and explores their own ideas of self-worth. Using two performers who constantly change thei...

  • Home Away from Home
    11:14
    Home Away from Home
    Episode 4

    Home Away from Home

    Episode 4

    Directed by Maureen Blackwood • 1994 • United Kingdom
    Starring Ellen Thomas, Ashabi Ajikawo, Simon Lee Clarke

    A bittersweet drama that unfolds almost without dialogue, this prizewinning short conveys immigrant women’s experiences of isolation. Feeling displaced from her rural African roots, Miri...

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