The Great North

Beginning at the industrial revolution of the ‘great north’, Jenn Nkiru draws lines between peoples, cities, countries, buildings, movements, bodies and spaces(s) using a mixture of archive materials and new footage. There is little stillness as we are pushed and pulled through Black histories and communities across the city of Manchester and beyond. Nkiru has termed this filmmaking process “cosmic archeology”, and it is grounded in Afro-surrealism, experimental film and the Black arts movement.

• Jenn NkiruDirector
• Jenn NkiruWriter
• Barry AdamsonOriginal Music Composer
• Lord TuskOriginal Music Composer
• A Guy Called GeraldOriginal Music Composer

• Aaron OrrCast
• Adele JonesCast
• Akil Scafe-SmithCast
• Alfonso BullerCast
• Andrew JonesCast
• Ann SargéCast
• Annika Campbell-HypoliteCast
• Dammy AminuCast
• Denise SouthworthCast
• Edmond SmithCast
• Ella SpencerCast
• Emilly Yeboah ObengCast