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In the Year of the Quiet Sun + Nucleus of the Great Union + Screentalk with The Otolith Group and Annett Busch

Project a Black Planet

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These two films by The Otolith Group reflect on Pan-African histories and the legacies of Ghanaian revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah and author Richard Wright.

Drawing on fragments of image, text, and sound, the works explore the entanglements of decolonisation, cultural production, and transnational Black thought, positioning these figures within a broader history of political imagination and global exchange.

In In the Year of the Quiet Sun and Nucleus of the Great Union, archival documents are reassembled alongside speculative narration to consider both the ambitions and unrealised futures of Pan-Africanism.

Moving between historical record and critical reflection, the films open up the archive as a space of possibility, where past visions of unity and liberation can be revisited, questioned, and reimagined.

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

In the Year of the Quiet Sun, The Otolith Group, UK, 2013

Nucleus of the Great Union, The Otolith Group, UK, 2018

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Location
Barbican Cinema 1 is located within the main Barbican building on Level -2. Head to Level G and walk towards the Lakeside Terrace where you’ll find stairs and lifts to take you down to the venue floor.   

Address
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Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS

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