Memory Room 451

Memory Room 451 (1996)


  • Genre: Science Fiction, Documentary
  • Release Date: 1996-01-01
  • User Rating: 4.5/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 0h 25min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Black Audio Film Collective
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: John Akomfrah
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Summary

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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