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Afrofuturism

The Golden Chain

13m

Directed by Adebukola Bodunrin and Ezra Claytan Daniels • 2016 • United States

Experimental cinema meets the aesthetics of the graphic novel in this surreal outer-space odyssey to the edge of consciousness and the cosmos.

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