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358: 60:, meaning "return and fetch it", represented figuratively as a bird turning its head back towards its tail, to signify "going back into the past and discovering knowledge that will be of benefit to the people in the future." 46:, among others, Sankofa was "dedicated to developing an independent black film culture in the areas of production, exhibition and audience". The name and the logo of the collective derive from the 84:, both groups centered around investigations of black identity/culture within the British experience and reworked the documentary to articulate new voices in British cinema." 289: 419: 429: 395: 329: 210: 174: 434: 81: 414: 369: 388: 251: 155: 69: 424: 76:
in the 1980s: "Influenced by contemporary debate on post-colonialism and social theorists such as
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in suspicious circumstances at the entrance of an east London police station.
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Young, British and Black: The Work of Sankofa and Black Audio Film Collective
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Sankofa's first film, and Isaac Julien's directorial debut in 1983, was
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The formation of Sankofa Film and Video Collective, like that of the
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and Robert Crusz, who all graduated from various art colleges in
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Index

Isaac Julien
Nadine Marsh-Edwards
London
Greater London Council
British Film Institute
Channel 4
Akan
sankofa
Ghana
Black Audio Film Collective
Britain
Homi Bhabha
Stuart Hall
death of a young black man
Looking For Langston
Black Audio Film Collective
"Attille, Martina"
Alison Donnell


"Blackwood, Maureen 1960–"
"Nadine Marsh-Edwards"
"Sankofa Film and Video"
Annette Kuhn
"Julien, Isaac (1960-)"
"Black Audio & Sankofa Film Collectives"
"Who Killed Colin Roach"
"Isaac Julien: Territories And Who Killed Colin Roach?"
Tate Britain
Coco Fusco

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