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The last angel of history / a Black Audio Films production in association with Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen and Channel Four Television ; producers, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson ; director, John Akomfrah.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pan-Africanism.
- Science fiction--Social aspects.
- Science fiction.
- Popular music--Social aspects.
- Popular music.
- African Americans--Interviews.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (45 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2016]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- John Akomfrah, director of Seven Songs of Malcolm X, returns with an engaging and searing examination of the hitherto unexplored relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and rapidly progressing computer technology. This cinematic essay posits science fiction (with tropes such as alien abduction, estrangement, and genetic engineering) as a metaphor for the Pan-African experience of forced displacement, cultural alienation, and otherness. Akomfrah's analysis is rooted in an exploration of the cultural works of Pan-African artists, such as funkmaster George Clinton and his Mothership Connection , Sun Ra's use of extraterrestrial iconography, and the very explicit connection drawn between these issues in the writings of black science fiction authors Samuel R. Delaney and Octavia Butler.
- Participant:
- Kodwo Eshun, George Clinton, Derrick May, John Corbett, Bernard A. Harris Jnr., Nichelle Nichols, Juan Atkins, DJ Spooky, Greg Tate.
- Credits:
- Camera, David Scott ; music, Trevor Mathison ; editor, Justin Amsden.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Black Audio Films ©1995; previously released in 1997.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 8, 2016).
- Publisher Number:
- if-angel Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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