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The Archive Reimagined: Pan-African Histories and the Moving Image (15)

Project a Black Planet

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A series of films that use archival material to explore how histories are constructed, contested, and reimagined through the moving image. 

Spanning diverse geographies and political contexts, these works treat the archive as an active site of interpretation and possibility rather than a fixed past.

In Mémoire 14, Ahmed Bouanani reworks colonial newsreels into a counter-history of Morocco. Sana Na N’Hada’s Return of Amílcar Cabral reflects on anti-colonial struggle and the afterlives of revolutionary figures in Guinea-Bissau. Sammy Baloji’s AEQUARE: The Future That Never Was interrogates the promises and failures of modernity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Onyeka Igwe’s No Archive Can Restore You offers an intimate meditation on absence and loss, questioning what remains outside the archive.

Presented within the Project a Black Planet season, these films show how archival images can challenge dominant narratives and reimagine Black histories and political futures.

Tagged with: Cinema Project a Black Planet Film Season

Book two or more films in the Project a Black Planet film programme at the same time and get 20% off.

Programme

AEQUARE: The Future That Never Was, dir Sammy Baloji, DRC, 2021, 45 mins

Mémoire 14, dir Ahmed Bouanani, Morocco, 1971, 25 mins

Return of Amílcar Cabral, dir Sana Na N’Hada, 1976, Guinea-Bissau-Sweden, 32 mins

No Archive Can Restore You, dir Onyeka Igwe, Nigeria/UK, 2020, 6 mins

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