a so-called archive

a so-called archive

Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2020 • Nigeria, United Kingdom

Blending footage shot in two separate colonial archive buildings—one in Lagos, Nigeria, the other in Bristol, England—this double portrait considers the “sonic shadows” that colonial images continue to generate even after the disintegration of their memory and materials.

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a so-called archive
  • a so-called archive

    Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2020 • Nigeria, United Kingdom

    Blending footage shot in two separate colonial archive buildings—one in Lagos, Nigeria, the other in Bristol, England—this double portrait considers the “sonic shadows” that colonial images continue to generate even after the disintegratio...