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2021

Faces Voices

Directed by Christopher Thomas Allen, Paul Basu

2018 – 18'

Synopsis

The film complicates any simple reading of a colonial photographic archive from Southern Nigeria and Sierra Leone that was collected between 1909 and 1915. Through a collaborative creative effort with contemporary multimedia artists The Light Surgeons, voices are added to mute photographs to produce multiple readings.

This film is part of the collected DVD entitled “Decolonising”. Please click on the “Decolonising shorts” button above for the complete list of films included in the collection.

RAI FILM Festival 2025

The next RAI FILM Festival will take place in person from 27-30 March 2025 at the Watershed Cinema and the Arnolfini International Centre for Contemporary Arts in Bristol (UK) and online throughout the month of April 2025.