The Great North

Name: The Great North
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 52 min
Cast: Aaron Orr, Adele Jones, Akil Scafe-Smith, Alfonso Buller, Andrew Jones

Movie

StarringAaron OrrAdele JonesAkil Scafe-Smith

DirectorJenn Nkiru

WriterJenn Nkiru

NR 52 minDocumentary

Plot

Beginning at the industrial revolution of the ‘great north’, Jenn Nkiru draws lines between peoples, cities, countries, buildings, movements, bodies and spaces(s) using a mixture of archive materials and new footage. There is little stillness as we are pushed and pulled through Black histories and communities across the city of Manchester and beyond. Nkiru has termed this filmmaking process “cosmic archeology”, and it is grounded in Afro-surrealism, experimental film and the Black arts movement.

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