Sankofa Film and Video Collective

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Sankofa Film and Video Collective was founded in 1983 by

Akan word sankofa from Ghana, meaning "return and fetch it", represented figuratively as a bird turning its head back towards its tail, to signify "going back into the past and discovering knowledge that will be of benefit to the people in the future."[2]

Background

The formation of Sankofa Film and Video Collective, like that of the Black Audio Film Collective, was a response to the social unrest in Britain in the 1980s: "Influenced by contemporary debate on post-colonialism and social theorists such as Homi Bhabha and Stuart Hall, both groups centered around investigations of black identity/culture within the British experience and reworked the documentary to articulate new voices in British cinema."[6]

Sankofa's first film, and Isaac Julien's directorial debut in 1983, was Who Killed Colin Roach? - a reflection on the death of a young black man in suspicious circumstances at the entrance of an east London police station.[7][8]

Selected filmography

  • Who Killed Colin Roach? (dir. Isaac Julien, 1983)
  • Territories (dir. Isaac Julien, 1984)
  • Passion of Remembrance (dir. Maureen Blackwood, Isaac Julien, 1986)
  • Dreaming Rivers (dir. Martina Attille, 1988)
  • Looking For Langston
     (dir. Isaac Julien, 1989)
  • A Family Called Abrew (dir. Maureen Blackwood, 1992)
  • Inbetween (dir. Robert Crusz, 1992)

See also

References

  1. ^ Andrea D. Barnwell, "Attille, Martina", in Alison Donnell (ed.), Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture, Routledge, 2002, pp. 21-22.
  2. ^ a b Carol Brennan, "Blackwood, Maureen 1960–", Contemporary Black Biography. 2003. Encyclopedia.com; accessed 22 February 2015.
  3. ^ "Nadine Marsh-Edwards", BFI, Film Forever.
  4. ^ Ann Ogidi, "Sankofa Film and Video", BFI Screenonline.
  5. ^ Annette Kuhn, "Julien, Isaac (1960-)", BFI Screenonline.
  6. ^ "Black Audio & Sankofa Film Collectives", Cinema Project.
  7. ^ "Who Killed Colin Roach". Isaac Julien Studio. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Isaac Julien: Territories And Who Killed Colin Roach?". Tate Britain. 7 September 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2023.

Further reading

  • Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
    , Buffalo, NY, 1988.

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