JGPACA Film Club has landed. After the success of our presentation of ‘Pen Rhythm Poet’ back in December, we are so happy to officially announce a regular monthly film screening which will be held at the MayDay Rooms. Each month we will present a film related to the archive and give the chance (before and after) for attendees to engage with selected materials from the archive and discuss Pan African film culture.
For our first JGPACA Film Club we will be showing Ngozi Onwurah’s feature length debut ‘Welcome to the Terrordome’ (1995). This incendiary sci-fi collapses past, present and future in a dytopian ghetto called the Terrordome. Here, the ongoing race war between the Police and the Black residents plays out in full effect. Impassioned and raw, Welcome to the Terrordome continues to resonate almost three decades after its release. The film itself is an important landmark in British cinema history being the first feature by a Black British woman to secure a theatrical release. However, it was critically panned at the time for its DIY low budget aesthetic and melodramatic dialogue. Restraint is a priviledge! Come and experience the urgency to act within this seminal work!
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.
