Hard Light Cinema

🌟 NEW RELEASES

In collaboration with Exposure Cinema, we’re thrilled to be presenting a screening of the new 2K restoration of Ngozi Onwurah’s radically ahead-of-its-time Afrofuturist vision, Welcome II the Terrordome!

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.

Described by IndieWire as a cross between the films of John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood) and classic dystopian sci-fi like Brazil, Terrordome is the lost hip-hop dystopian epic that demands an audience.

This screening is FREE as part of our effort to bring great Black cinema to Richmond with no barrier of cost to our audience 💟