New restoration!
Ngozi Onwurah’s radically ahead-of-its-time Afrofuturist vision Welcome II the Terrordame made history as the first theatrically distributed British feature directed by a Black woman. Nevertheless, it was largely dismissed upon its release by critics unable to see the urgency in its evocation of a gritty dystopia in which Black people have been relegated to a slum called the Terrordome, where simmering racial tension threatens to boil over in the wake of a young boy’s death. But over 30 years later, Onwurah’s fusion of political commentary and genre spectacle looks positively prescient, and her ability to build an entire cosmology that connects the history of slavery to present-day police brutality is nothing less than visionary.
Q&As with Ngozi Onwurah following the 7pm screenings on Friday, July 31 and Saturday, August 1.
Ngozi Onwurah’s radically ahead-of-its-time Afrofuturist vision Welcome II the Terrordame made history as the first theatrically distributed British feature directed by a Black woman. Nevertheless, it was largely dismissed upon its release by critics unable to see the urgency in its evocation of a gritty dystopia in which Black people have been relegated to a slum called the Terrordome, where simmering racial tension threatens to boil over in the wake of a young boy’s death. But over 30 years later, Onwurah’s fusion of political commentary and genre spectacle looks positively prescient, and her ability to build an entire cosmology that connects the history of slavery to present-day police brutality is nothing less than visionary.
Q&As with Ngozi Onwurah following the 7pm screenings on Friday, July 31 and Saturday, August 1.
UPCOMING Screenings
RUNNING TIME
90min
VENUE
FORMAT
DCP
TICKET INFORMATION
General Admission: $17
Members: $12
Please note: A $2 handling fee per ticket will be added to your order.
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the Lepercq Cinema is provided by
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