Grada Kilomba Movies

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

"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...

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...

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

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...