Watch Streaming Memory Room 451 (1996) : Movie Without Downloading 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. | ||
| Release Date | : | Jan 01, 1996 |
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| Genres | : | Science Fiction, Documentary |
| Production Company | : | Black Audio Film Collective |
| Production Countries | : | United Kingdom |
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| Plot Keywords | : | short film |
