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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Jenn Nkiru
Director, Writer
Hayley Pepler
Executive Producer
Gabrielle Jenks
Executive Producer
Aya Kaido
Producer
Mikal Habteab
Producer
Nina Franklin
Producer
Nkem Nwaneri
Producer
Steph Clarke
Producer
Fraser Rigg
Director of Photography
Barry Adamson
Original Music Composer
Gerald Simpson
Original Music Composer
Lord Tusk
Original Music Composer
Jermaine Quainoo
Editor
Sami Khan
Production Design
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