Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Akomfrah, John
2. Black Audio Film Collective.
3. Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.
4. Channel Four (Great Britain)
5. First Run/Icarus Films.

Description

1. 1 videocassette (45 min.) : sound, color; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Explores the relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, space exploration, and computer technology. Examines science fiction elements in literature and music as metaphors for the Pan-African experience of forced displacement and cultural alienation.

Subject

1. Popular music > Social aspects
2. Documentary films
3. Short films
4. Pan-Africanism
5. Science fiction > Social aspects
6. Nonfiction films

Genre/Form

1. Documentary films.
2. Nonfiction films.
3. Short films.

Call number

1. Sc Visual VRA-577

Credits (note)

1. Producers, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson ; cinematographer, David Scott ; composer, Trevor Mathison ; a Black Audio Films production in association with Zweites Deutches Fernsehen and Channel Four Television.

System details (note)

1. VHS.

Title

1. The last angel of history / directed by John Akomfrah.

Imprint

1. New York : First Run/Icarus Films, 1995.

Type of content

1. two-dimensional moving image

Type of medium

1. video

Type of carrier

1. videocassette

Credits

1. Producers, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson ; cinematographer, David Scott ; composer, Trevor Mathison ; a Black Audio Films production in association with Zweites Deutches Fernsehen and Channel Four Television.

System details

1. VHS.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Akomfrah, John, film director.
2. Black Audio Film Collective.
3. Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.
4. Channel Four (Great Britain)
5. First Run/Icarus Films.

Research call number

1. Sc Visual VRA-577