Collections/March 2024

Revolutionary Reveries: Four Films by the Sankofa Film and Video Collective

Founded by a group of young artists in London in 1983, the Sankofa Film and Video Collective sought to give expression to the complexities of Black British identity in an era of turbulent social and racial strife. Encompassing documentary, narrative, and avant-garde practices, the aesthetically innovative, politically engaged cinema that Sankofa produced—including several acclaimed shorts as well as Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien’s landmark feature The Passion of Remembrance —offered an urgent new perspective on race, gender, sexuality, and British culture and history that radically subverted the white, Eurocentric gaze.

4 films