Sylwan + two films by Madubuko Diakité (15*) + Recorded Introduction by Awa Konaté
Un/Seen Spectres
Three shorts that meditate on the joins and traces of Black people’s presence within Sweden, through Pippi Longstocking, experimental jazz, and the haunting malaises of colonialism.
In the first Un/Seen Spectres programme, we present artist Salad Hilowle’s Sylwan (2022), which conjures the life of actor Joe Sylwan, who played a central part in the first film adaptation of Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking. A film that poignantly meditates on Black people's experiences in this region of Europe.
Next, two powerful documentaries from activist and human rights lawyer Madubuko Diakité. The Invisible People (1972), co-directed by Afro-Swedish filmmaker Diakité, offers a biting and uncompromising political treatise on the conditions of African migrants in Sweden, laying bare the haunting malaises of colonialism.
In For Personal Reasons (1972), also by Diakité, experimental jazz and radical Black activism, drawing on the Black Panthers, collide through the tense heights of a 1970 protest as fertile ground for Black revolt.
Please note: this programme includes references to racism and racist violence.
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Programme
Sylwan
2022 Sweden, Somala Dir Salad Hilowle 15 min
The Invisible People (Det osynliga folket)
1971 Sweden Dir Nordal Åkerman, Madubuko Diakité, Gary Engman 30 min
For Personal Reasons (Av personliga skäl)
1972 Sweden, USA Dir Madubuko Diakité 29 min
Cinema 2
Location
Barbican Cinema 2 & 3 are located on Beech Street, a short walk from the Barbican’s Silk Street entrance. From Silk Street, you’ll see a zebra crossing that will take you across the road to the venue.
Address
Beech Street
London
EC2Y 8DS
Public transport
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Access
Cinemas 2 & 3 are located at Beech Street, a short walk from the Barbican Centre’s main Silk Street entrance. There are a couple of steep, dropped kerbs and an incline to negotiate between the two sites. Level access from Beech Street.
Mobility
Each auditorium has three permanent wheelchair spaces (two in the third row and one in the front row) and 153 fixed seats with capacity for a further three spaces in the front row. Access to each auditorium is up a ramp. There are also a number of seats with step-free access.
Assistance dogs
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Hearing facility
An infrared system for hard of hearing customers is provided in each auditorium; headsets or neck loops can be collected from foyer staff. The ticket desk counter is fitted with an induction loop.
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