Ngozi Onwurah

  • Ngozi Onwurah – Coffee Colored Children (1988)

    Ngozi Onwurah1981-1990ExperimentalUnited Kingdom
    Coffee Colored Children (1988)
    Coffee Colored Children (1988)

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    Experimental monologue about the trauma of racial harassment and self-hate that accompanies growing up mixed-race in Britain.

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    An intimate experimental monologue about the trauma of racial harassment and self-hate that accompanies growing up mixed-race, this short film examines the complexity of Britain’s racial ‘melting pot’. Performance art based in rituals of water and fire explores the psychological journey of trying to assimilate to and overcome the unachievable standard of whiteness.Read More »

  • Ngozi Onwurah – Welcome II the Terrordome (1995)

    1991-2000ActionNgozi OnwurahSci-FiThe Female GazeUnited Kingdom

    The first feature ever directed by a black British woman is this ferocious, ambitious, dystopian nightmare influenced by African mythology, the films of Spike Lee, and the music of Public Enemy. A near-future inner-city ghetto implodes under the pressure of racial tensions, poverty, and police brutality, in “a world which doesn’t breathe so much as pant” (Time Out London).Read More »

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