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    The Passion of Remembrance

    Maureen BLACKWOOD Isaac JULIEN 1986 UK Fiction color 83min DCP
    A landmark work in British avant-garde cinema, Sankofa’s influential debut feature ambitiously explores themes of racism, homophobia, and generational tensions. Interweaving two narrative threads—one in which a man and a woman discourse on their own experiences living in the UK, another in which events from three decades in the lives of the Baptiste family are staged—the filmmakers tease the accumulated fragments into a heterogeneous mosaic that evokes the multiplicity of Black experience and identity.

    Director

    Maureen BLACKWOOD

    Named as “a formidable figure in black filmmaking in Britain,” she had co-founded Sankofa and joined Camden Black Sisters in the 1980s. Known for Perfect Image?, Home Away from Home, her work focuses on untold stories of black women within a shared political heritage of struggle.

    Isaac JULIEN

    An acclaimed British filmmaker and installation artist. He co-founded Sankofa and was a founding member of Normal Films in 1991. Known for Looking for Langston, Young Soul Rebels, Ten Thousand Waves, his work has been widely exhibited internationally.

    Maureen BLACKWOOD

    1986 The Passion of Remembrance

    1988 Perfect Image?

    1992 A Family Called Abrew

    1994 Home Away from Home

    Isaac JULIEN

    1986 The Passion of Remembrance

    1989 Looking for Langston

    1991 Young Soul Rebels

    1996 Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

    2002 BaadAsssss Cinema

    2010 Ten Thousand Waves

    British Film Institute
    George WATSON
    George.Watson@bfi.org.uk

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