Welcome II the Terrordome

Director: Ngozi Onwurah Run Time: 90 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1995 Starring: Ben Wynter, Felix Joseph, Saffron Burrows, Suzette Llewellyn, Valentine Nonyela Screenwriter: Ngozi Onwurah Producer: Simon Onwurah Vidiots is thrilled to welcome writer/director Ngozi Onwurah for a special 30th Anniversary screening of her visionary Afrofuturist gem Welcome II the Terrordome! Co-presented by our friends at Monkeypaw Productions and featuring a merch pop-up and limited giveaways! 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 thirty 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. Picks from the Video Store Take home more Afrofuturist deep cuts from our video collection! Space is the Place, Born in Flames, The Brother from Another Planet Accessibility Options: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.