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.
Up Next in Short Films by Onyeka Igwe
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The Miracle on George Green
Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2022 • United Kingdom
THE MIRACLE ON GEORGE GREEN tells a collective social history of the UK tradition of the commons—land collectively owned and used to gather, play, and debate. The film centers on the George Green treehouse in East London, where a beloved chestnut t...
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A Radical Duet
Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2023 • United Kingdom
Starring Renee Bailey, Tomi Ogunjobi, Emmanuel KojoWhat happened in 1940s London when two women of different generations, both fighting against colonialism, came together to put their fervor and imagination into writing a revolutionary play?
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Penkelemes
Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2025 • Nigeria, United Kingdom
Created in 1948 to produce compliant colonial subjects, the University of Ibadan stands as an example of the university as a colonial project. Following Nigerian independence, it briefly flourished as a center of Nigerian thought and cultu...
