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A So-Called Archive
A So-Called Archive
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A SO-CALLED ARCHIVE

Directed by Onyeka Igwe
United Kingdom, 2020
Short, Documentary

Synopsis

Blending footage shot in two separate colonial archive buildings—one in Lagos, Nigeria, and the other in Bristol, United Kingdom—this double portrait considers the ‘sonic shadows’ that colonial images continue to generate, despite the disintegration of their memory and their materials.

Synopsis

Blending footage shot in two separate colonial archive buildings—one in Lagos, Nigeria, and the other in Bristol, United Kingdom—this double portrait considers the ‘sonic shadows’ that colonial images continue to generate, despite the disintegration of their memory and their materials.