WELCOME II THE TERRORDOME

1994, UK

Ngozi Onwurah

The first film directed by a Black British woman to receive a UK theatrical release in the 1990s, WELCOME II THE TERRORDOME’s title refers to a track by the famous New York hip hop group Public Enemy in their 1991 album Fear of a Black Planet. Starting in North Carolina, USA, with an Ibo family resisting slavery, the film jumps into a British fetid slum from a near future to which Black people have been relegated. Dealing with police brutality, this unclassifiable low-budget visionary piece about racial tensions was radically ahead of its time.

Eine Person, die ein ärmelloses Oberteil trägt, hebt beide Arme über den Kopf, während sie im Freien steht, mit verschwommenen Gebäuden im Hintergrund.
Section: Retrospective
Country: UK
Director: Ngozi Onwurah
Language: englische OF
Running time: 93min

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