• Film

Traces of Colonial Memory

Nii Kwate Owoo, Shireen Seno, Shirley Bruno

You Hide Me, directed by Nii Kwate Owoo (Ghana, UK; 1970) 

Date and Time:

Sunday 10 May, 3–4.30pm

Location:
Minassa

This event is part of Cinema from the Global Majority: Introducing the Cinelogue Library, the first screening series presented by Cinelogue in collaboration with Ibraaz, bringing together a selection of films from its growing library spanning Africa, Asia, Latin America, and their diasporas.

Traces of Colonial Memory is a short film program anchored by You Hide Me, Nii Kwate Owoo, 1970) alongside An Excavation of Us (Shirley Bruno, 2017) and To Pick a Flower (Shireen Seno, 2021). Across these works, colonial histories are revisited through personal memory and institutionalized violence. From the storage rooms of the British Museum, through a myth-infused excavation of Haiti’s revolutionary past within the cave of Marie Jeanne, to photographic family archives in the Philippines, each film approaches the archive as a contested terrain. Together, they approach it not as a neutral repository, but as a site shaped by power and the ongoing struggle over historical narrative.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with Nii Kwate Owoo, joining us on Zoom from Accra, moderated by Rehana Esmail.

Doors open at 2.30pm; event start at 3pm and finishes at 4.30pm.
 

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