Grada Kilomba Movies

  • 2006
    The Maji-Maji Readings

    The Maji-Maji Readings

    The Maji-Maji Readings

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    A theatre reading about the Maji Maji uprising in the former German East Africa reveals that colonial, racist patterns of thought still dominate in Ge...

    The Maji-Maji Readings
  • 2012
    Conakry

    Conakry

    Conakry

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    "Conakry" is a homage to the Guinean-Bissauan and Cape Verdean anti-colonial leader Amílcar Cabral. This poetic film is a single shot 16mm film staged...

    Conakry
  • 2017
    Illusions Vol. I, Narcissus and Echo

    Illusions Vol. I, Narcissus and Echo

    Illusions Vol. I, Narcissus and Echo

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    Retelling of the Greek myth. Grada Kilomba's 'Narcissus and Echo' is a metaphor for a society which has yet to resolve its colonial past and is incapa...

    Illusions Vol. I, Narcissus and Echo
  • 2018
    Illusions Vol. II, Oedipus

    Illusions Vol. II, Oedipus

    Illusions Vol. II, Oedipus

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    Retelling of the Greek myth. Grada Kilomba's 'Oedipus' tells a story about violence, exploring the role that fate can play for those who live in a sys...

    Illusions Vol. II, Oedipus
  • 2019
    Illusions Vol. III, Antigone

    Illusions Vol. III, Antigone

    Illusions Vol. III, Antigone

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    Retelling of the Greek myth. Grada Kilomba's 'Antigone' relates a story of resistance and justice, told from a black feminist perspective, in which th...

    Illusions Vol. III, Antigone