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Illusions Vol. III, Antigone (2019)

Directed by Grada Kilomba

Overview

Retelling of the Greek myth. Grada Kilomba’s ‘Antigone’ relates a story of resistance and justice, told from a black feminist perspective, in which the protagonist rebels against the colonial patriarchal system to bury her brother, transforming the burial into a political act against the oblivion of faces and reminding the spectator of the exploitation and death of black workers in colonial plantations.

Length 55 minutes

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