Screening: Threads of Memory
With Black Collective
Unravelling the enduring influence of West African and Caribbean cultural memory on Black British fashion, Threads of Memory explores how migration, identity and resilience alongside an ever-expanding style and social exchange via moving image, shaped the evolution of a fashion movement that redefines authenticity and challenges stereotypes.
Dir: Juliana Kasumu | 2025 | 17 mins
Threads of Memory is supported by the ‘Our Screen Heritage’ programme. This programme aims to reframe the public’s relationship with the vast collections of the BFI National Archive, providing more and better opportunities for people to learn about and access their screen heritage. Threads of Memory brings historical footage from the archive into conversation with contemporary online digital works to encourage new understandings of and conversations around how our individual and collective experiences and stories have been represented and received through moving image – from the earliest days of film right up to the present day.
This event is supported by the BFI Screen Heritage Fund, awarding National Lottery funding.
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About the filmmaker
Juliana Kasumu is a British-Nigerian artist and filmmaker whose multidisciplinary practice spans film, photography, and installation. Through fragmented, non-linear storytelling, she explores identity, memory, and diasporic experience. Her work has been shown internationally, including at the Rencontres de Bamako Biennale, Getty Images Gallery, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her installation What Does the Water Taste Like? was featured in the 2022 London Open at Whitechapel Gallery and won the 2021 Aesthetica Emerging Art Prize.
Kasumu’s award-winning short BABYBANGZ premiered at the BFI London Film Festival, earning the Grand Jury Prize at AFI Fest and multiple festival awards. Other works include Losing Joy, which screened at BFI Flare and Edinburgh International Film Festival, and Adura Baba Mi, which premiered at Camden International Film Festival and was nominated for Best Short Film at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival.