Frames of Representation: Black Mother + Q&A with Khalik Allah

Khalik Allah's Black Mother is an aesthetic experience that's at once raw, exalted, and singular. - Slant Magazine

This screening is the UK special preview

Join us for a Q&A with director Khalik Allah following the screening

Lyrical and haunting, Black Mother is a film-poem to Jamaica, conjuring up the island in a polyphony of voices, textures and tales. Moving between the voices of different characters, from the prayers of priests to the testimonies of sex workers, the film captures the plurality and idiosyncrasy of its overlapping worlds.

With a photographer’s eye for detail, director Khalik Allah interweaves varied stories into a complex tapestry of encounters which border on the sublime. Probing the line between imagination and history, the film imagines the island landscape as a creative force, a space not only shaped by its complex past but also continuously evolving through new webs of relation.

Black Mother, dir. Khalik Allah, USA/Jamaica 2018, 75 mins

Meet the director after the Q&A at the #FoR18 Opening Party in the ICA Nash and Brandon Rooms: free to attend for Black Mother ticket holders

We are offering a special multibuy offer for FoR 2018:

• If you purchase tickets for 4-8 screenings: £10 (full price) / £8 (concessions) / £7 (ICA Members) per ticket
• If you purchase tickets for 9-11 screenings: £9 (full price) / £7 (concessions) / £6 (ICA Members) per ticket
• Festival Pass for all 15 films: £120 (full price) / £100 (concessions) / £80 (ICA Members)

Please note that the above multi-buy deals and festival passes are only valid for film screenings, not talks or special events

Frames of Representation (FoR): New Visions for Cinema 2018 is presented in academic partnership with CHASE (Consortium for the Arts and Humanities South-East England)