| Title: | Memory Room 451 | |
| Director 1: | John Akomfrah | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 1997 | |
| length: | 20 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | documentary, experimental | |
| Screenwriter: | Edward George | |
| Cinematographer: | Jonathan Collinson, Dewald Aukema | |
| Editor: | Liz Green | |
| Producer: | Avril Johnson | |
| Production company: | Black Audio Film Productions for ZDF | |
| Cast: | Brian Bovell, Jo Martin, Cyril Nri, Mo Sesay, Clare Perkins | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 55 | |
| Synopsis: | This experimental film evolves around issues of racism and racial difference. It takes the Afro hair-style of black people as an indicator of racial difference because it denotes their otherness. At the same time, however, the Afro hair-styles can be also regarded as an expression of racial awareness, pride and resistance. | |
| Keyword 1: | blackness | |
| Keyword 2: | pride | |
| Keyword 3: | black | |
| Keyword 4: | cultural identity | |
| Keyword 5: | racism | |
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