TROPIKOS

Dir. John Akomfrah Prod. Smoking Dogs Films 2015 38 min. UK

Tropikos explores the dark history of the Tamar’s river and its links to the slave trade.

Using a series of narrative texts, the film transforms the river's landscape into a 16th-century English one, evoking characters from Elizabethan history. Tropikos gives new life and meaning to the 'Age of Discovery' and to characters who have been left in the archives of history.

• Bristol’s Arnolfini gallery - 2016

• Turner Contemporary - 2016

• Perez Art Museum Miami - 2017

• Oberhausen International Short Film Festival - 2017

• The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, USA - 2019