TheLastAngelofHistory(1996)

"The line between social reality and science fiction is an optical illusion"

Smart and savage and campy AS F “the line between social reality and science fiction is an optical illusion”

4.0

A sci-fi digitized diaspora of Africans. 上世紀電視節目總是充滿了conspiracy的感覺

很有意思的實驗，非常超前

Docu-fiction by Akomfrah, the director who did the Stuart Hall Project, among many other documentaries. Unlike the much more focused and linear logic of the Stuart Hall Project, the Last Angel of History is an experimental journey to the past & future seen through the lenses of a fictional "Data Thief", with no real theme or message except music, afro-culture and a misguided concept of technology. Basically it's a mess. The only positive thing is that it introduces some good music and manages to be creative in the editing & superposing of sounds and images, techniques which constitute Akomfrah's aesthetic signature. Original concept, though not leading anywhere at all.