Grada Kilomba Trailers
Illusions Vol. III, Antigone TrailerIllusions Vol. II, Oedipus TrailerIllusions Vol. I, Narcissus and Echo Trailer
Most Popular Grada Kilomba Trailers
Total trailers found: 8
While I Write: Act III of The Desire Project Trailer (2016)
01 January 2016
With the written word as the only visual element, Grada Kilomba gives a voice to an individual who has been historically silenced by colonial narratives.
Plantation Memories: Part II Trailer (2015)
01 January 2015
An exploration of everyday racism reveals how much this places the black subject in a colonial setting where they once again are reduced to the subordinate, exotic 'Other'.
Plantation Memories: Part I Trailer (2015)
01 January 2015
An exploration of everyday racism reveals how much this places the black subject in a colonial setting where they once again are reduced to the subordinate, exotic 'Other'.
The Maji-Maji Readings Trailer (2006)
07 January 2006
A theatre reading about the Maji Maji uprising in the former German East Africa reveals that colonial, racist patterns of thought still dominate in Germany today.
Illusions Vol. III, Antigone Trailer (2019)
15 June 2019
Retelling of the Greek myth. Grada Kilomba's 'Antigone' relates a story of resistance and justice, told from a black feminist perspective, in which the protagonist rebels against the colonial patriarchal system to bury her brother, transforming the burial into a political act against the oblivion of faces and reminding the spectator of the exploitation and death of black workers in colonial plantations.
Illusions Vol. II, Oedipus Trailer (2018)
15 June 2018
Retelling of the Greek myth. Grada Kilomba's 'Oedipus' tells a story about violence, exploring the role that fate can play for those who live in a system that reproduces cyclical oppression.
Conakry Trailer (2013)
25 October 2013
"Conakry" is a homage to the Guinean-Bissauan and Cape Verdean anti-colonial leader AmÃlcar Cabral. This poetic film is a single shot 16mm film staged at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and based on the archival images.
Illusions Vol. I, Narcissus and Echo Trailer (2017)
15 June 2017
Retelling of the Greek myth. Grada Kilomba's 'Narcissus and Echo' is a metaphor for a society which has yet to resolve its colonial past and is incapable of seeing beyond its own reflection.
