In the Year of the Quiet Sun + Nucleus of the Great Union – two films by The Otolith Group
Sat 15 Aug 2026, 14:00
Barbican Cnema 3

These two films by The Otolith Group reflect on Pan-African histories and the legacies of Ghanaian revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah and author Richard Wright.

Drawing on fragments of image, text, and sound, the works explore the entanglements of decolonisation, cultural production, and transnational Black thought, positioning these figures within a broader history of political imagination and global exchange.

In In the Year of the Quiet Sun and Nucleus of the Great Union, archival documents are reassembled alongside speculative narration to consider both the ambitions and unrealised futures of Pan-Africanism.

Moving between historical record and critical reflection, the films open up the archive as a space of possibility, where past visions of unity and liberation can be revisited, questioned, and reimagined.