Memory Room 451 poster

Quick Info

Rating

4.5/10

Release1996

Runtime0h 25m

StatusReleased

BudgetN/A

RevenueN/A

Production

Black Audio Film Collective

Movie

Memory Room 451

1996

0h 25m

4.5

Science Fiction

Documentary

Synopsis

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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