Welcome II the Terrordome - The Criterion Collection

Ngozi Onwurah's radically ahead-of-its-time dystopian sci-fi film Welcome II the Terrordome - the first theatrically distributed British feature by a Black woman - furiously evokes a near future in which Black people are segregated within a slum called the Terrordome, where simmering violence and anger threaten to boil over in the wake of a young boy's murder. Named after an incendiary single by Public Enemy, the film uses its rap soundtrack to both comment on and drive its narrative, part of a sensibility in which American, British, and African cultures collide and the past, present, and future collapse. In this prescient work, Onwurah builds a visionary, Afrofuturist cosmology that connects the history of slavery to modern-day systemic racial brutality.

Special Features

Commentary: Alwin H. Küchler (cinematographer), Ngozi Onwurah (director) and Ashley Clar (Criterion curatorial director), Documentaries: 'Meet the Filmmakers: Ngozi Onwurah', Three short films by Ngozi Onwurah: 'Coffee Coloured Children' (1988); 'And Still I Rise' (1993); 'Hang Time' (2001) with a new introduction by the director; Essay by Kadish Morris (poet/critic); New cover by Ngabo 'El'Cesart' Desire Cesar

Audio Languages: English

Duration: 94 minutes

Number of Discs: 1

Subtitle Languages: English

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