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Films
2 Films
available to watch on demand
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Region
“British-Irish Isles”
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films with a digital version
1
short films
2
films available on demand
2
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Region
British-Irish Isles
2
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West Africa
1
Country
Nigeria
1
Sierra Leone
1
United Kingdom
2
Keywords
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
1
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
1
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
Life Story/ Life History
1
Personal Narrative
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Directors
Basu, Paul
1
Ross, Nina
1
Thomas Allen, Christopher
1
Series
Decolonising Shorts
1
Shorts Collection 2
1
Country of production
United Kingdom
2
Year of production
2018
1
2020
1
Film list
The Daring Young Girl on the Flying Trapeze
2020
27
‘
Directed by
Nina Ross
.
As a child, Nancy Willis dreamt of joining the circus, longing for freedom and adventure. Diagnosed with muscular dystrophy and told she would not live beyond her twenties, the now 65-year-old artist
British-Irish Isles
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
Personal Narrative
Health/ Health care/ Healing
Life Story/ Life History
Faces Voices
2018
18
‘
Directed by
Paul Basu
Christopher Thomas Allen
.
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
West Africa
British-Irish Isles
Archival material / Museum displays
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Race / Racism / Antiracism