Defiantly uncompromising throughout, Ngozi Onwurah’s film traces the legacy of slavery in the racial tensions and police brutality of the present, when a sprawling black ghetto known as the Terrordome plunges into chaos following the actions of a grieving mother. Onwurah draws inspiration from mythological slave narratives, Afrofuturism and Greek tragedy.
Welcome II the Terrordome (1993)
Ngozi Onwurah’s film traces the legacy of slavery in the racial tensions and police brutality of the present.
- 1993 United Kingdom
- Directed by
- Ngozi Onwurah
- Produced by
- Simon Onwurah
- Written by
- Ngozi Onwurah
- Featuring
- Suzette Llewellyn, Saffron Burrows, Felix Joseph
- Running time
- 94 minutes
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