The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive is pleased to invite documentary practitioner and founding member of the critically acclaimed Black Audio Film Collective to present his award-winning 1989 film Twilight City on Friday 13 September at MayDay Rooms.
Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with Reece Auguiste.
Twilight City (Dir: Reece Auguiste)
"By 1989, the Conservative government was three years into a programme of wealth creation and urban redevelopment unparalleled in 20th Century Britain. Black Audio Film Collective’s third film, Twilight City, can now be seen as the first essay-film to map the cartography of the new London through an excavation of the psychic and historical strata of the Docklands, Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs." - Black Audio Film Collective
A fictional letter from a daughter, Olivia, to her mother in Dominica is the narrative thread connecting interviews from (predominantly) black and Asian cultural critics, historians and journalists and interviews with respected commentators like Homi Bhabha, Paul Gilroy and George Shire offer fascinating personal stories that contrast with the polemics with which they are usually associated.
Reece Auguiste is a documentary practitioner and Associate Professor at University of Colorado Boulder whose research focuses on national cinemas, transnational screen cultures and documentary media practices. Auguiste was a founding member of the critically acclaimed British-based Black Audio Film Collective and is the director of the award-winning films Twilight City (1989), and Mysteries of July (1991) and Duty of the Hour (2015).
The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive
As a living archive, the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive invite audiences to form an interactive relationship with items within our archive on display at our events, using them as tools to spark discussions on the films we will view together.
As a living archive we invite audiences to form an interactive relationship with items within our archive on display at our events, using them as tools to spark discussions on the films we will view together.
6.30pm: Archival Display in the Reading Room
7.00pm: Screening