Strange Object

The cruelty of confinement and the struggle for liberation contained within in hand-drawn animation and archival footage.

Abstracted footage and audio of bombs dropping on Biafra in 1967 set against a speech by leader Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, illustrates the ironies of post-colonial warfare.

A new formation of history that includes the fantastical as well as the political in the context of Britain’s decolonial process in Kenya and during the Cold War.

Important events like Tunisia’s Independence Day might be in the past, but we may need to access them in counter-intuitive ways.

An imagining of lost films from the Nigerian Film Unit archive, with distinctive soundscapes, juxtaposed with images of the abandoned interior and exteriors of the building that housed it.

Re-worked footage from an unfinished film by Senegalese director Mamadou Johnny Sekka forms a re-examination of The Jackson 5’s 1974 trip to Dakar.

A poetic response to the experience of the Coronavirus pandemic, drawing on the collections of 12 UK film archives.

The 65th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express.

Kids face the closure of their Brighton playground but fight back to reclaim it, with a little help from the iconic Volks Railway

Child actor Mandy Miller shines in this children's adventure set in the traditional hop picking season in Kent.

A driver tries some small talk to connect with his Uber passenger, but ends up raising bigger issues.

Black music and culture in the community