a so called archive (2020) dir. Onyeka Igwe

In Lagos, the former Nigerian Film Unit building was one of the first selfdirected outposts of the British visual propaganda engine, the Colonial Film Unit (19321955). Today it stands empty. Its rooms are full of dust, cobwebs, stopped clocks, and rusty and rotting celluloid film cans. The films found in this building are hard to see, not only because of their condition, but also perhaps because people do not want to see them. They reveal a colonial residue, echoed in walls of the building itself. Meanwhile, in Bristol Temple Meads, the former British Empire and Commonwealth Museum (20022009) was previously housed in the vaults of one Isambard Kingdom Brunels most famous railway designs. The museum included photographic, film, sound and object collections from across the former British Empire. However, it is now shrouded in ignominy after the alleged illegal sale of several items from its collection, leading to its closure.