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Panorama 2016
Isaac Julien, Sunil Gupta © Sankofa Films
A lyrical consideration of the life of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. A multilayered narrative interweaving extracts from his poetry with fantasy sequences, photographs and texts by Essex Hemphill and Bruce Nugent.
by Isaac Julien
with Ben Ellison, Matthew Baidoo, John Wilson, Akim Mogaji United Kingdom 1989 45’

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