Grada Kilomba Movies

"Conakry" is a homage to the Guinean-Bissauan and Cape Verdean anti-colonial leader Amílcar Cabral. This poetic film is a single shot 16mm...

Retelling of the Greek myth. Grada Kilomba's 'Antigone' relates a story of resistance and justice, told from a black feminist perspective, in which...

Retelling of the Greek myth. Grada Kilomba's 'Oedipus' tells a story about violence, exploring the role that fate can play for those who live in a...

A theatre reading about the Maji Maji uprising in the former German East Africa reveals that colonial, racist patterns of thought still dominate in...

Retelling of the Greek myth. Grada Kilomba's 'Narcissus and Echo' is a metaphor for a society which has yet to resolve its colonial past and is...

An exploration of everyday racism reveals how much this places the black subject in a colonial setting where they once again are reduced to the...

An exploration of everyday racism reveals how much this places the black subject in a colonial setting where they once again are reduced to the...

With the written word as the only visual element, Grada Kilomba gives a voice to an individual who has been historically silenced by colonial...