The Passion of Remembrance

Codirected by Blackwood and Julien the first fulllength feature film by Sankofa Film and Video offers a radical and necessary interrogation into what constitutes postcolonial identity at a time of political and social restlessness in Britain Set within an isolated desert landscape contrasted with recognizable scenes of the intensity of family life this vanguard work demonstrates the richness and variety of the black experience it is a poetic and hardhitting commentary on the complexities of race gender and sexuality