Lina Gopaul Trailers
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Most Popular Lina Gopaul Trailers
Total trailers found: 17
Who Needs a Heart Trailer (1991)
02 January 1991
The tumultuous life of the controversial 1960s black revolutionary (and convicted murderer) Michael X is illustrated by a kaleidoscopic melding of sound and images.
The Nine Muses Trailer (2010)
01 September 2010
Part documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the story of immigrant experience coming into the UK from 1960 onwards.
Seven Songs for Malcolm X Trailer (1993)
01 October 1993
The Black Audio Film Collective’s seventh film envisioned the death and life of the African American revolutionary as a seven part study in iconography as narrated by novelist Toni Cade Bambara and actor Giancarlo Espesito.
At the Graveside of Tarkovsky Trailer (2012)
05 October 2012
A homage to Russian film giant Andrei Tarkovsky, this work integrates excerpts of soundtracks from Tarkovsky’s films with a slideshow of landscapes shot by Akomfrah and an evocative sculptural installation.
Riot Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
John Akomfrah’s seminal Riot traces the riots in Liverpool during July 1981 in a climate of economic recession under Thatcher’s regime.
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong Trailer (1999)
27 August 1999
Louis Armstrong is one of the most recognizable figures in jazz, with his incomparable trumpet playing and beaming smile.
Transfigured Night Trailer (2014)
07 March 2014
Transfigured Night draws its inspiration from two sources of the same name – Verklärte Nacht – the German poem by Richard Dehmel from 1896 and the musical composition by Arnold Schoenburg in 1899.
Listening All Night to the Rain Trailer (2024)
20 April 2024
Listening All Night To The Rain continues John Akomfrah’s abiding interest in post-colonialism, ecology and the politics of aesthetics with a renewed focus on the sonic.
The Last Angel of History Trailer (1996)
11 September 1996
An examination of the hitherto unexplored relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and rapidly progressing computer technology.
Handsworth Songs Trailer (1986)
08 May 1986
The Black Audio Film Collective’s acclaimed essay film, 'Handsworth Songs', examines the 1985 race riots in Handsworth and London.
Purple Trailer (2017)
06 October 2017
Purple is a six-channel video installation addressing climate change, human communities and the wilderness.
Digitopia Trailer (2001)
28 April 2001
Drama about a man who lives in an analogue world but seeks to fulfil his desires in a digital world.
Precarity Trailer (2017)
10 October 2017
A three-channel video installation, working with the themes of risk, hybridity and the unfathomable to explore the city of New Orleans through the remarkable life and times of Charles “Buddy” Bolden, the first person known to have explored the sonic tonalities of the music we now call jazz.
A Touch of the Tar Brush Trailer (1991)
12 November 1991
Black filmmaker John Akomfrah believes that, for too long, being English has meant being white. In an attempt to show Englishness from the point of view of mixed-race English people, he visits Liverpool, one of England's oldest multicultural communities.
Notes for a Return Trailer (2013)
15 October 2013
Nada and Rabieh are a Palestinian couple living far from the possibility of a homeland. A meditation on time, memory, and the distance from a dream.
Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
Produced while the Black Audio Film Collective were undergraduates, Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire is the first of a two-part 35mm slide-tape text entitled Expeditions; part two is entitled Images of Nationality.
