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Onuoha_The Memory Guardians 2024
Onuoha_The Memory Guardians 2024
Onuoha_The Memory Guardians 2024
Onuoha_The Memory Guardians 2024
Onuoha_The Memory Guardians 2024
Onuoha_The Memory Guardians 2024

The Memory Guardians

In the court of the Memory Guardians, a trial ensues about what to do with the statue of the Kneeling Woman, following her defacement in Zehlendorf and relocation to the Zitadelle Museum in Spandau. While one counsel advocates that the statue be publicly displayed in the Zitadelle Spandau Museum to caution against “left-wing extremism”, another argues that she should be kept in the more private Schaudepot indefinitely to educate about difficult history. Yet another argues for her to be destroyed, given the racist beliefs of her creator, the violence against her and the messiness of contextualising all this Black pain for a public.

Year: 2024
Length: 12′
Format: HD, colour
Language: German
Subtitles: English and German
 

Writer, Director, Editor, Producer: Nnenna Onuoha
Co-Producer: Kathy-Ann Tan
Cinematography: Kleber Nascimento
AC: Klementine Medved
Gaffer: Jakob Reinhardt
Steadicam: Marco Müller
Location Sound: Nithin Shamsudhin
Hair & Makeup: Adrian Blount
Cast: Adrian Blount, Mable Preach, Massiamy Diaby, Manuel Talarico, Shelly Phillips, Talin Seigmann, Ahmad Baba