"The ‘90s weren't ready for Ngozi Onwurah's futuristic fable...we've needed a quarter of a century for its spiky refusal to compromise to be understood." - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
"It’s one of the most exciting 'new' movies you’re likely to see all summer." - Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire
“A shocking slice of epic sci-fi…Brimming with ambition and heartfelt rage, [Onwurah] made a ‘punk’ film with an urgent provocation, enshrined in the pounding soundtrack, streetwise dialogue and lovingly filmed, predominantly Black cast.” - David Somerset, Sight & Sound
Opens September 11 | Ngozi Onwurah’s radically ahead-of-its-time Afrofuturist vision WELCOME II THE TERRORDOME made history as the first theatrically distributed British feature directed by a Black woman. Nevertheless, it was largely dismissed upon its release by critics unable to see the urgency in its evocation of a gritty dystopia in which Black people have been relegated to living in a slum called the Terrordome, where simmering racial tension threatens to boil over in the wake of a young boy’s death. Over 30 years later, Onwurah’s fusion of political commentary and genre spectacle looks positively prescient, and her ability to build an entire cosmology that connects the history of slavery to present-day police brutality is nothing less than visionary.
WELCOME II THE TERRORDOME is presented as part of the Black Harvest Film Festival's year-round programming and ongoing exhibition.
The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu