The Great North

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.

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

52 min

Cast:

Aaron Orr, Adele Jones, Akil Scafe-Smith

Quality:

HD

Director:

Jenn Nkiru

Release:

2024

Country:

United Kingdom

Rating:

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