Memory Room 451
Memory Room 451

Memory Room 451

Memory Room 451

Release date : 1996-01-01

Production country :

United Kingdom

Production company :

Black Audio Film Collective

Status : Released

Durasi : 25 Min.

Popularity : 0.3049

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Total Vote : 1

Science Fiction

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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.

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