Onyeka Igwe’s No Archive Can Restore You surveys the rustic, decaying interiors of the former Nigerian Film Unit building in Lagos, viscerally evoking a history full of contingency – including colonial propaganda, institutional neglect, architectural rot – and reimagining the lost sounds that abandoned film cans may contain.
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Onyeka Igwe Director · Morgan K. Spencer Cinematographer
First release May 3, 2020 · Produced in United Kingdom
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English
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English
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United Kingdom · May 3, 2020
Digital · Alchemy
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October 7, 2020 · Premiere · BFI London Film Festival
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